note 35177 added to function.xml-set-character-data-handler

WARNING !!! Always use concatenation for getting the content of a XML tag when you write the function that will deal with the Character Data handling Example: $mycontent = ''; $xml_parser = xml_parser_create (); xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "_characterdata"); function _characterdata($parser, $data){ global $mycontent; //HERE: use .= and not = $mycontent .= $data; } ... while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) { xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)); } I had the following problem with the use of '=$data' : In one of my XML documents, the parsing stopped in the middle of a character data : In original document: <prop name="nbres">100</prop> What happened: <prop name="nbres">10[parsing stopped here in chunck of 4096bytes]0</prop> As I did not use the concatenation, when I displayed the value of the 'nbres' property, the value was 0 instead of 100 because the first time the function characterdata was called : $mycontent = 10; and the second time: $mycontent = 0; //!!!!!!!!!!!!! HO HO !! some problem occured ... Instead of $mycontent = 100; CONCLUSION: IN YOUR CHARACTER DATA HANDLER FUNCTIONS, NEVER FORGET THE . (concatenation operator) !!!!! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE WEIRD BUGS SOME TIMES ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-set-character-data-handler.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+35177 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+35177&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+35177&report=yes