CDATA tags is what you need --- Ellis (Sent from my iPod) On 2010-09-20, at 16:57, Bastien Koert <phpster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php