Posted by Rik on 06/24/06 10:13

Bart Van der Donck wrote:
> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>
>> The XML my PHP app is returning to my JavaScript function has
>> elements in it that contain special characters... specifically the
>> ampersand & which hoses up the data. ex: Company Name = "K & B
>> Construction".
>>
>> Can anyone give me some idea of how I make the data coming out of my
>> database translate as literal characters in the XML output?
>
> I think you should deal with this at the PHP side because '&' is
> reserved for the declaration of entities. The best way is to encode
> your special chars to html entities before adding them to the XML
> file. I'ld say that PHP should have ready-to-go regexes for this kind
> of
> things.

There is, htmlentities().
Unfortunately, it doesn't recognize every character, and coverts the
ampersand in already converted entitities. In the comments, someone claims
to have written a better function for it:
http://www.prolifique.com/entities.php.txt

I haven't tried the code yet, maybe it's usefull here.

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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