On 29 November 2010 19:24, Micky Hulse <mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking at this ExpressionEngine plugin:
>
> <http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/xml_encode/>
> Description: This plugin converts reserved XML characters to entities.
>  It is used in the RSS templates.
>
> ... Curious about this code:
>
> trim(str_replace(array('&#47;', '&nbsp;'), array("/", '&#160;'), $str));
>
> The plugin author used the above bit of code in the return statement.
>
> Just curious if their is any particular reason why one would want to
> replace &#47; and &nbsp; with / and &#160 respectively?
>
> For example, I am writing a similar plugin which utilizes
> htmlentities()... I guess I am just wondering if I should apply the
> same code as above to my entity-converted string?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
> Micky

I'm guessing that &nbsp; is only valid in HTML.

Not sure why / would be encoded as it isn't anything too special
outside of the closing tag.


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