Electric Fairground » SimpleXML http://www.electricfairground.com OOOm pa pa, OOOm pa pa . . . Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:39:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Beware of the & (ampersand) character when parsing XML using PHP’s SimpleXML http://www.electricfairground.com/2009/11/15/beware-of-the-ampersand-character-when-parsing-xml-using-phps-simplexml/ http://www.electricfairground.com/2009/11/15/beware-of-the-ampersand-character-when-parsing-xml-using-phps-simplexml/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:06:47 +0000 Lappa http://www.electricfairground.com/2009/11/15/beware-of-the-ampersand-character-when-parsing-xml-using-phps-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);]]>

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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