note 71526 added to function.get-html-translation-table

Another way of converting HTML entities into numeric entities to please XML parsers is using two arrays as conversion tables in a preg_replace function. The conversion table mechanism is based on Ryan's examples above. <?php function xmlEntities($s){ //build first an assoc. array with the entities we want to match $table1 = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES); //now build another assoc. array with the entities we want to replace (numeric entities) foreach ($table1 as $k=>$v){ $table1[$k] = "/$v/"; $c = htmlentities($k,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8"); $table2[$c] = "&#".ord($k).";"; } //now perform a replacement using preg_replace //each matched value in array 1 will be replaced with the corresponding value in array 2 $s = preg_replace($table1,$table2,$s); return $s; } ?> ---- Server IP: 192.117.122.43 Probable Submitter: 62.90.246.190 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-html-translation-table.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/71526 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71526 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/71526 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php