note 95931 added to simplexmlelement.addChild

another comment on special chars: it is not, that addChild doesn't escape special chars and addAttribute does (as Andy suggested) nor that addChild does automatically escape all XML characters as necessary (as Dmitr suggested). addChild does some sort of html_entity_decode and stores the decoded result in the SimpleXMLElement. So it assumes the $value to be properly encoded xml data, not just any text. This is, why addChild vomits: Warning: SimpleXMLElement::addChild(): unterminated entity reference stuff when executing <?php $msg = "This is a test & stuff."; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($test); $xml->addAttribute('foo', $msg); ?> (tries to decode unknown entity &stuff (semicolon missing)) Encoding of special characters is done by asXML. This is, why Andy's hack does work. ---- Server IP: 217.160.72.57 Probable Submitter: 62.245.157.124 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.addChild.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/95931 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95931 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/95931 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php