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Posted by Gertjan Klein on 08/08/06 08:02
mandric@gmail.com wrote:
>Can someone please enlighten me on how to preserve the <![CDATA[]]>
>element when parsing an xml file or string with simplexml. I'm using
>libxml 2.6.16 and php 5.1.4.
As far as I've been able to find out this is not possible. However, I
don't think there is a *functional* difference between preserving the
CDATA and what simplexml does. In CDATA sections, you can include e.g.
<i>some</i> HTML elements as-is. They, when parsing, will not result in
separate nodes in the resulting DOM. The XML that $xml->asXML()
generates, escapes the reserved characters (<, >, &) instead. As far as
I can tell this results in functionally the same XML.
Of course, it would be nice if simplexml would remember that a given
element originally held CDATA contents and output it as such. Perhaps
you can file an enhancement request for this.
Gertjan.
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Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>
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