note 98213 added to domdocument.load

load() will handle non-ASCII characters depending on the details of the XML declaration, but in a somewhat surprising way. One would assume that the declarations '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' and '<?xml version="1.0"?>' are treated in the same way because UTF-8 is the default encoding anyway. But not so. * If there is an XML declaration defining the encoding *explicitly*, the non-ASCII characters remain unchanged. * If the XML declaration does not define the encoding explicitly, or if the XML declaration is missing, non-ASCII characters are converted into numeric entities. So the document <?xml version="1.0"?> <root><nonascii>ä</nonascii></root> will be converted to <?xml version="1.0"?> <root><nonascii>&#xE4;</nonascii></root> The same happens if there is no XML declaration at all. On the other hand, the document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root><nonascii>ä</nonascii></root> will remain as it is. This behaviour applies to loadXML() as well. ---- Server IP: 217.160.235.204 Probable Submitter: 91.57.106.39 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.load.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/98213 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98213 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/98213 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php