Age Bosma wrote: > I'm converting, or at least trying, one XML file to another XML format > using XSLT parsing it with PHP. > > I'm using a lot of characters in the following style "& #34;", "& #42;", > etc. (without the space, added now the prevent any conversion in this > e-mail) in the XML file and I would like to keep it that way. PHP is > converting every string like these to e.g. "&qout;" or "*". What can be > done to prevent this conversion? > > As far as I understand this is default behaviour of the parser and can > not be prevented. Personally I consider this a bug because what if I > just want to use "& #34;" (without the space) as a normal string value? > The parser shouldn't touch it at all. > > Can someone enlighten me a bit more on this one? :-) I avoid XML as much as possible, as the biggest bugaboo since Y2K, but, worst-case scenario. You should be able to do a http://php.net/str_replace in some judicious place to un-do the places where the XML parser messed up... Of course, if you've got & quot; in there in some places, and you want THAT left alone, you're in trouble... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
