[PHP] Re: XML Filters for illegal characters

2005-01-05 Thread Jason Barnett
Douglas 1 Jones wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a filter that can take data to be wrapped in XML tags and filter this data encoding any illegal XML characters or, if they cannot be encoded, remove them. The problem I have is a database that contains text that must be wrapped in

[PHP] Re: XML Filters for illegal characters

2005-01-05 Thread Jones, Douglas 1
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your problem, so let me ask it another way. Is the problem that you are getting characters entered into the database that are encoded in one way (e.g. UTF-8) when you expected the characters to be encoded in another way (e.g. ISO-8859-1)? No, the problem involves

Re: [PHP] Re: XML Filters for illegal characters

2005-01-05 Thread John Holmes
Jones, Douglas 1 wrote: I think that a function just like htmlentities but one that just removes characters that are illegal but can not be fixed would be the ideal solution. How do you define what can and cannot be fixed, though? You'd have to know the bad characters and in that case, a