Posted by exhuma.twn on 12/27/06 10:08

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:
> exhuma.twn wrote:
> > I am having trouble inserting text containing newlines as text nodes.
> > It replaces the newlines with proper entities (&#13;) and <br/>'s with
> > "&lt;br /&gt;". That's a very useful feature as such. But in my case
> > it breaks what I would like to do.
> >
>
> Main problem here, is that you should rely on the content being valid XML
> all the time. Especially when the content originates from user input (e.g.
> through a CMS), this is hard to accomplish.
>
> One safe solution would be to strip <br> tags and append elements/text nodes
> where appropriate:
>
> function eval_text_node_with_br(&$doc, &$child, $text) {
> $text = preg_replace('!<br[^/>]*/?>!i', "\n", $text);
> $text_array = preg_split('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/', $text);
>
> foreach ($text_array as $i => $line) {
> $child->append_child($doc->create_text_node($line));
> $child->append_child($doc->create_element('br'));
> }
> }
>
> $doc = domxml_new_doc("1.0");
> $child = $doc->create_element('root');
> eval_text_node_with_br($doc, $child, 'hello<br> world<BR />5');
> $doc->append_child($child);
> print htmlentities($doc->dump_mem());
>
>
> HTH;
> JW

Thanks. This solved the problem. And as the data I am inserting comes
from a plain-text email anyhow, well-formedness is not a problem.

Thanks again.

--
Mich

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