RE: [PHP] Invalid Characters, XML...

[Luis Lebron]

Here's what I have been using.


$trans= array("'" => "&#39;", "'" => "&#39;",">" => "&#62;", "<" => "&#60;",
"&" => "&#38;","-" => "&#45;", "°" => "&#176;", "±" => "&#177;", "-" =>
"&#150;", """ => "&#147;", """ => "&#148;","..." => "&#8230;","'" =>
"&#8216;","²" =>"&#178;","·" => "&#183;" );
        
$value=strtr($value,$trans);



Luis
-----Original Message-----
From: David Otton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:18 AM
To: Russell P Jones
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Invalid Characters, XML...


On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:51:53 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>Im using PHP to write to XML files, but I am having some problems. A lot
>of users are cutting and pasting content from text editors like word,
>which uses odd quotation marks, dashes, etc. which PHP writes to the XML
>file, and then the XML parser does not under stand. Is there a
>stripslashes() or htmlspecialchars() equivalent that will convert this
>kind of stuff to the correct ascii text?

This should get you started. It behaves as does htmlentities().

For those high-ASCII characters out of Word/IE... decide what regular ASCII
character you want to map them to, (eg slanted-quote-open and -close to
regular quote), and add them to the $trans array before performing the
array_walk().

function xmlentities ($string, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT)
{
  static $trans;
  if (!is_array ($trans)) {
    $trans = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES, $quote_style);
    array_walk ($trans, create_function ('&$a, $b', '$a = "&#" . ord ($b) .
";";'));
  }
  return (strtr ($string, $trans));
}



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