On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:26 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Joe Harman wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Bob McConnell <rvm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> From: Joe Harman
> >>> I am using PHP to build an XML file, but I keep on getting an XML
> >>> error when open the file in Google Chrome.
> >>>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ---------
> >>> This page contains the following errors:
> >>>
> >>> error on line 30 at column 318: Entity 'iuml' not defined
> >>> Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
> >>>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> --------
> >
> > Okay, Thanks... appears the problem is that I have foreign language
> > entities in my HTML... Ugh
> >
> > I am sure this is not really the most efficient way to do this, but I
> > tried using the following to get rid of these, but it appears that it
> > just converts them to this i¿½...
> >
> > $search = explode(",","ç,æ,œ,á,é,í,ó,ú,à,è,ì,ò,ù,ä,ë,ï,ö,ü,ÿ,â,ê,î,ô,û,å,e,i,ø,u");
> > $replace = explode(",","c,ae,oe,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u,y,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u");
> > $decode_string = str_replace($search, $replace,
> > html_entity_decode($row_rsFeed['full_desc']))
> >
> > I am going to read up some more on sanitizing HTML
> >
> > Joe
>
> you need to be dealing with encodings here; whats the encoding of the
> original content? iso-8859-1? - in short what you need is to convert all
> "text" to be utf-8, more than likely utf8_encode($whatchaNeed) will get
> you going in right direction.
>
> regards!
Couple of ways to get round this:
1. Define the entity in a DTD for the XML
2. Put the raw character in the output (i.e. Ï)
3. Write the character as you have done, but put it inside a
<![CDATA[ ]]> block
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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