Re: using DOM functions with embedded html / encoding

[Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx>]

jonathan wrote:
> I'm interested in creating an xml doc from my php5/mysql 4.1 app. I'm  
> using PHP's DOM functions to create the xml file.
>
> Some of the text fields now have well-formed html embedded in them.  
> When I do a $dom->createElement('item_name', $clean_slot), it encodes  
> the values to &lt;b&gt; for <b>.  How would I suppress this behavior.  
> It doesn't look like there is any other variable I can pass to  
> createElement or to appendChild.

It has to do that so it's not treated as xml itself.

instead of

<data>
&lt;b&gt;
</data>

you'd end up with:

<data>
<b>
</data>

which means you are completely changing the DOM (whether it's valid xml 
or not is another thing altogether).

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