note 52324 added to function.xml-parser-create

xml_parser_create () on php5 sometimes detects the wrong input format for me -- for example, sometimes when i try to parse data that has been fetched from a databse by my script and that only contains a handful of special ISO-8859-1 characters, it seems to think the input was something else and xml_parse() chokes on things like umlauts. the only reason i was able to figure out so far would be that -- unlike my data files -- the xml data generated by my script doesn't contain the <?xml [...] encoding="..." ?> definition. every data source with that definition seemed just fine; it's kinda odd that it worked *sometimes* without it *shrugs*. no matter what the reason, using utf8_encode () on the string made it work, and prepending '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>' worked as well. this problem shouldn't occur in php4, since there you would specify the input encoding along with the output encoding. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parser-create.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+52324 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52324&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52324&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52324&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52324&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52324&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+52324&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php