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Ramakrishnan
Ramakrishnan

Reputation: 5436

How to Construct xml in php with Special Characters?

My user enters message with special characters as follows:

this is a test of &&, &&, % as well as '' "", " instead of this is a test of &, &&, % as well as '' "", "

I need to construct XML as follows:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
<success>
<message>
this is a test of &amp;, &amp;&amp;, % as well as '' &quot;&quot;, &quot; instead of this is a test of &, &&, % as well as '' "", "
</message>
</success>

Can any body help me? Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3689

Answers (2)

Matt Weldon
Matt Weldon

Reputation: 1413

Try cleansing the input string using htmlspecialchars() (PHP spec) before adding it to the XML document which should give you the encoding you require.

However if you are not constrained in the way that you create the XML document (i.e. you can do it in a way other than pure string manipulation) I would follow prostynick's solution as it is much more robust in the long term.

Upvotes: 2

prostynick
prostynick

Reputation: 6219

You can use DOMDocument to create xml document and append required elements and text. All characters like & will be converted to &amp; etc.

Upvotes: 3

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