note 61450 added to function.simplexml-load-file

So it seems SimpleXML doesn't support CDATA... I bashed together this little regex function to sort out the CDATA before trying to parse XML with the likes of simplexml_load_file / simplexml_load_string. Hope it might help somebody and would be very interested to hear of better solutions. (Other than *not* using SimpleXML of course! ;) It looks for any <![CDATA [Text and HTML etc in here]]> elements, htmlspecialchar()'s the encapsulated data and then strips the "<![CDATA [" and "]]>" tags out. <?php function simplexml_unCDATAise($xml) { $new_xml = NULL; preg_match_all("/\<\!\[CDATA \[(.*)\]\]\>/U", $xml, $args); if (is_array($args)) { if (isset($args[0]) && isset($args[1])) { $new_xml = $xml; for ($i=0; $i<count($args[0]); $i++) { $old_text = $args[0][$i]; $new_text = htmlspecialchars($args[1][$i]); $new_xml = str_replace($old_text, $new_text, $new_xml); } } } return $new_xml; } //Usage: $xml = 'Your XML with CDATA...'; $xml = simplexml_unCDATAise($xml); $xml_object = simplexml_load_string($xml); ?> ---- Server IP: 64.246.30.37 Probable Submitter: 80.77.243.32 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+61450 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61450&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+61450&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php