On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, robert mena <robert.mena@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to parse a XML file with simplexml_load but it gave me error. > While inspecting the contents I found a & inside the value of a tag. > <tag>something & something</tag>. > > After I've removed the & everything went fine. So which chars I should not > put in my file? Should I use some conversion function like html_entities? > > Does the receiver of the XML has to do anything to convert is back? > The following should not be used inside XML & ampersand ' single quote " double quote > greater than < less than you could simply wrap all your data in CDATA tags -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php