trying to make characters safe for my RSS feed

[lkrubner]

Whenever users write a post in Microsoft Word and then post it to
their weblogs using my PHP software, their RSS feed ends up being
corrupted with garbage characters which violate the well-formedness of
their XML and therefore cause their newsreaders to die.

This function will probably make the character strings completely safe
for XML? I don't care about having garbage characters in the RSS feed,
I just want the RSS feed to show up, without causing anyone's newsfeed
reader to die.
function command($string =false) {
$howMany = strlen($string) ;

$newString = "";
for ($i=0; $i < $howMany; $i++) {
$char = $string[$i];
$asciiNum = ord($char);
if ($asciiNum > 32 && $asciiNum < 128) {
$newString .= $char;
} else {
$newString .= "'";
}
}

return $newString;
}

[lkrubner]

Okay, the function doesn't work:

http://www.whatisliberalism.com/pdsFiles/page2533.xml

All the white space got replaced, but the entity that is kill the feed
is still there.

What is wrong with this function?

function command($string =false) {
$howMany = strlen($string) ;

$newString = "";
for ($i=0; $i < $howMany; $i++) {
$char = $string[$i];
$asciiNum = ord($char);
if ($asciiNum > 32 && $asciiNum < 128) {
$newString .= $char;
} else {
$newString .= "'";
}
}

return $newString;
}

[Colin Fine]

lk******@geocit ies.com wrote:

Okay, the function doesn't work:

http://www.whatisliberalism.com/pdsFiles/page2533.xml

All the white space got replaced, but the entity that is kill the feed
is still there.

What is wrong with this function?

function command($string =false) {
$howMany = strlen($string) ;

$newString = "";
for ($i=0; $i < $howMany; $i++) {
$char = $string[$i];
$asciiNum = ord($char);
if ($asciiNum > 32 && $asciiNum < 128) {
$newString .= $char;
} else {
$newString .= "'";
}
}

return $newString;
}

I don't know what's wrong with its operation, but you're reinventing the
wheel.

Have a look at http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtr.php

Colin

[lkrubner]

>>>All the white space got replaced, but the entity that is kill the

feed

is still there.
What is wrong with this function?
function command($string =false) {
$howMany = strlen($string) ;
$newString = "";
for ($i=0; $i < $howMany; $i++) {
$char = $string[$i];
$asciiNum = ord($char);
if ($asciiNum > 32 && $asciiNum < 128) {
$newString .= $char;
} else {
$newString .= "'";
}
}
return $newString;
}

I don't know what's wrong with its operation, but you're
reinventing the
wheel.

Have a look at http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtr.php

I apologize for my ignorance, but I don't see how that reinvents the
wheel. The function you point to would allow me to replace the
offending character if I knew what it was, but I don't know what it
is.That's why I'm walking through the string one character at a time,
checking its ASCII number. Yet even that isn't working. I can't figure
out why. But that's the question.

[Steve]

All the white space got replaced, but the entity that is kill the
feed
is still there.

&acirc; XML is not HTML.

---
Steve