note 14728 added to function.xml-parse-into-struct.php

xml_parse_into_struct encodes the name of tags in UTF-8 ignoring the XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING you specified with xml_parser_set_option. To parse ISO-8859-1 encoded XML use: $parser = xml_parser_create('ISO-8859-1'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING,"ISO-8859-1"); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $xmldata, $struct, $index); // decode tag names back to ISO-8859-1 foreach (array_keys($struct) as $index) $struct[$index]['tag'] = utf8_decode($struct[$index]['tag']); simple but annoying. Jakob http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse-into-struct.php