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Posted by mandric on 08/08/06 23:17
Gertjan Klein wrote:
> 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.
>
I think the answer is use DOM if your needs are not simple. ;)
Which should be available if SimpleXML is.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php
Thanks Gertjan.
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