XML Entity Functions

[Chung Leong]

How come there isn't a xmlspecialchars(), and for that matter,
xml_entity_decode()? I would think someone would have thought of that by
now.

[Eric Bohlman]

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Yt********************@comcast.com:

How come there isn't a xmlspecialchars(), and for that matter,
xml_entity_decode()? I would think someone would have thought of that by
now.

Probably because the only reserved characters (and the only ones with
predefined entities) in XML are the ones handled by htmlspecialchars().
Remember that unless a DTD defines further entities, the only character
entity names available in XML are &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;, and &apos;.

[John Dunlop]

Eric Bohlman wrote:

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Yt********************@comcast.com:

How come there isn't a xmlspecialchars(), and for that matter,
xml_entity_decode()?

Probably because the only reserved characters (and the only ones with
predefined entities) in XML are the ones handled by htmlspecialchars().

OK. But in the case of html_entity_decode, it obviously won't work
for &apos;, since no such entity reference exists in HTML. That
entity reference will be left unchanged. No great problem though.

--
Jock

[Chung Leong]

htmlspecialchars() doesn't do &apros; though. It's easy enough to use
strtr(), but if the string is of multi-byte encoding, then it might not work
(the second byte of a 2-byte character would be <>&"', but shouldn't be
replaced).

Uzytkownik "Eric Bohlman" <eb******@earthlink.net> napisal w wiadomosci
news:Xn******************************@130.133.1.4. ..

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Yt********************@comcast.com:

How come there isn't a xmlspecialchars(), and for that matter,
xml_entity_decode()? I would think someone would have thought of that by
now.

Probably because the only reserved characters (and the only ones with
predefined entities) in XML are the ones handled by htmlspecialchars().
Remember that unless a DTD defines further entities, the only character
entity names available in XML are &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;, and &apos;.