Ok, I can understand the predefined entity replacement. But why does it break the string up into 3 parts? I think it should just return "Follow-up To Critique of BeOS & Mac OS X".
Ben On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 02:05 PM, Matthew Clark wrote: > Hi there, > > This is not a bug.. this is expected behaviour. > > The string would be chopped up into 3 parts because you have : > > 1. a string: "Follow-up To Critique of BeOS " > 2. a predefined entity : "&" > 3. a string: "amp; Mac OS X" > > There are not actually two ampersands.. you have & followed by > amp; - > this is so that once it has been parsed you end up with & which will > display correctly in most HTML browsers. > > Note that & is a usually a predefined entity in XML and so will be > replaced with "&". > > HTH > > Matt. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Gollmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 01 January 2002 00:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] XML Parsing Problem > > > Hi all - > > I'm experimenting with PHP's XML parser for an application that maps XML > tags to MySQL database fields. > > As a test for my parsing program, I've been grabbing XML from the > Slashdot news feed (http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.xml) and inserting > it into a database. This is very simple data - <title>blah</title> gets > inserted into the 'title' field, etc. However, when there are some > strange characters in the title field, the XML parser seems to choke. > > Here is an example. The title of a recent article from Slashdot looks > like this in the XML file: > > <title>Follow-up To Critique of BeOS &amp; Mac OS X</title> > > Don't ask my why they have a double ampersand in there... Anyway, the > XML parser returns this as three sets of data, instead of one. The array > that I get looks like this: > > $myArray[0] = "Follow-up To Critique of BeOS " > $myArray[1] = "&" > $myArray[2] = "amp; Mac OS X" > > This is the data I get back from the parser, BEFORE putting it into the > database. I'm echoing each array field to the screen, just to make sure. > So I know it has nothing to do with MySQL. The double ampersand > shouldn't make a difference - the XML parser should not be interpreting > HTML...right? Also, I don't get an error code or error string from > xml_parse(). > > Anyone have any ideas? This is a subtle bug - in fact I had been > satisfied with my XML parsing code, and was well into the rest of my > application when I happened to notice this. > > Ben > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
