Posted by MW on 11/20/07 23:32

Re-vising this problem, I have discovered that the ef_characterData
function is called twice by the parser, once with the part of the string
before the "é" and then again with the rest of the string (including the é)

While I investigate, I think the problem is because my XML file is
external. Before I feed it to the parser, I am reading it into a
variable using file_get_contents() - I think the assignment here is
creating the problem.

Will keep you guys posted, but if anybody has a similar problem can you
let me know?

MW

MW wrote:
> Problem solved with a strange workaround - I changed the assignment line
> to $ef['title'].=$data. For some reason the assignment was happening in
> two steps - the first step would transfer the part before the 'é' and
> the second would transfer the rest. By adding the concatenate operator I
> bypassed the issue.
>
> MW
>
> Dikkie Dik wrote:
>>>> What limitations? Strings can be "absurd" long.
>>> By limitations I mean that the charset is 8-bit, only 256 unique chars.
>>> If my string has an character like the french accent "e", it can lead to
>>> problems.
>> Well, yes, but string handling should be binary-safe in recent versions
>> of PHP. I use utf-8 a lot, and I never ran into that kind of problems.
>> The only thing I have to take care of is the fact that some characters
>> are represented by more than one "character".
>>
>>>> If you think the assignment is the problem, have you tried what
>>>> $ef['title'] is directly before and after the assignment?
>>> $ef['title'] is empty before the assignment, and "é to the White House"
>>> after assignment. The funny part is that if I echo both variables right
>>> below the line where the assignment occurs, $data is "Attaché to the
>>> White House" and $ef['title'] is "é to the White House"
>>
>> That is really strange. I never encountered anything like it. Does it
>> help (as an ugly workaround) to make it a reference assignment?
>> Like: $ef['title'] &= $data;
>>
>> If so, it might help to "clone"-assign it to a non-array (local)
>> variable first and then "reference"-assign that that local variable to
>> the $ef['title']
>>
>> Just curious...

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