DOM : special chars (entities) in attributes

Hi,
I currently use the DOM from PHP5 to create XHTML documents.
I have a problem with entities. I would like to create a node :
<input id="place" value="café rouge">
To do that I simply create the node with createElement, and then :
$node -> setAttribute ("value", $val);
If I set $val = "café rouge", the saveXML causes PHP to fail with an
error message. The accentuated character seems to be a problem.
If I set $val = "caf&eacute; rouge", saveXML automatically replaces
the & with &amp; and that's not what I expect either.
Any idea ?
Thanks

re: DOM : special chars (entities) in attributes

On 13 Feb 2005 05:50:26 -0800, jamais.content@tele2.fr (Jamais-Content) wrote:
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>I currently use the DOM from PHP5 to create XHTML documents.
>I have a problem with entities. I would like to create a node :
><input id="place" value="café rouge">
>To do that I simply create the node with createElement, and then :
> $node -> setAttribute ("value", $val);
>If I set $val = "café rouge", the saveXML causes PHP to fail with an
>error message. The accentuated character seems to be a problem.
>If I set $val = "caf&eacute; rouge", saveXML automatically replaces
>the & with &amp; and that's not what I expect either.
>Any idea ?[/color]

Perhaps the same as:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3c4f0d12e093fc

i.e. you need to utf8 encode before passing to the DOM functions.

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re: DOM : special chars (entities) in attributes

Thanks with utf8_encode('café rouge') it works well !