What Tom has to say + you should note that character data may be called more than once for each call to startElement.

Tom Rogers wrote:

Hi,

Saturday, October 11, 2003, 6:26:01 AM, you wrote:
DA> I do not understand why this line does not work :
DA> $info[$element] = $content;

DA> but yet this works: echo $content;

DA> why? what is the trick?

DA> --

DA> $xml_comment_file = basename($svg_file, '.svg.xml') .'.info.xml';

DA> if (file_exists($xml_comment_file)) {
DA>     $file = $xml_comment_file;

DA>     $info = array();
DA>     $element = null;

DA>     function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
DA>         global $element;
DA>         $element = $name;
DA>     }
DA>     function endElement($parser, $name) {
DA>         print "";
DA>     }
DA>     function characterData($parser, $content) {
DA>         global $info;
DA>         global $element;
DA>         $info[$element] = $content;
DA>         //$info[$element] = sprintf("%s", $content);
DA>     }

DA>     $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
DA>     xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, FALSE);
DA>     xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
DA>     xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

DA>     if (!($fp = fopen($file, 'r')))
DA>         die("could not open XML input\n");

DA>     while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
DA>         if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)))
DA>             die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
DA>                        xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
DA>                        xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));

DA> xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

DA>     print_r($info);
DA> }
DA> /*
DA> # the output is without $content :
DA> Array
DA> (
DA>     [info] =>
DA>     [file] =>
DA>     [orig-file] =>
DA>     [orig-author] =>
DA>     [bitmap-src] =>
DA>     [orig-date] =>
DA>     [svg-date] =>

DA> )
DA> */


the function characterData can be called with whitespace which is probably overwriting your content try this

$content = trim($content);
if(!empty($content)) $info[$element] = $content;





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