Beware of the & (ampersand) character when parsing XML using PHP’s SimpleXML

If you are getting errors like “parser error : EntityRef: expecting ‘;’” when trying to parse some XML using SimpleXML, it could be because your XML file or string contains an & character. Do the following to remedy the situation:

$correct_xml = str_replace('&','&',$problem_xml);

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