note 82323 added to ref.simplexml

I'm using SimpleXML to process data sent back from an API request, and I ran into the CDATA problem and the error you get from html entities, and here is a solution i came up with, don't know if it's the most practical, but it's working. <?php $str = <<< XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <menu> <item> <title><![CDATA[Caf&eacute;]]></title> <description><![CDATA[Some description.]]></description> </item> </menu> XML; $str = preg_replace("/\<\!\[CDATA\[(.*?)\]\]\>/ies", "'[CDATA]'.base64_encode('$1').'[/CDATA]'", $str); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($str); // Return item title's foreach ($xml->item as $item) { $tmp = (string) $item->title; $tmp = preg_replace("/\[CDATA\](.*?)\[\/CDATA\]/ies", "base64_decode('$1')", $tmp); echo $tmp; } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 71.208.192.48 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/82323 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82323 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/82323 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php