note 55946 added to ref.dom

Text nodes contain utf-8 encoding internally, no matter if you specify iso-8859-1 in the file you parse or create a new doc using $xmltree = new DomDocument('1.0','iso-8859-1'); The solution is to use utf8_decode $original = utf8_decode( $myitem->getElementsByTagName('ORIGINAL')->item(0)->nodeValue); ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55946 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55946&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55946&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55946&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55946&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55946&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55946&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55946&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php