Parse embedded html tags within XML file?

[Michelle]

I am trying to write a general function XML file parser, but it keeps
choking when it finds embedded HTML within the text, for example:

<item>
<title>New PHP eBooks in PDF</title>
<description>
<p style="color: red">This entry was brought to you by <a
href="http://tutorials.lockergnome.com/">Lockergnome's
Tutorials</a></p><strong>New PDFs are Available!</strong>...
</description>

When I try to read this all I get is "p style=" (no quotes). Is there a
function or routine I can use to read this as text so that it can be
printed out in HTML?

Thanks,

Miki

[Barbara \bev\ T.]

Hi

I am trying to write a general function XML file parser, but it keeps
choking when it finds embedded HTML within the text, for example:

<item>
<title>New PHP eBooks in PDF</title>
<description>
<p style="color: red">This entry was brought to you by <a
href="http://tutorials.lockergnome.com/">Lockergnome's
Tutorials</a></p><strong>New PDFs are Available!</strong>...
</description>

When I try to read this all I get is "p style=" (no quotes). Is there a
function or routine I can use to read this as text so that it can be
printed out in HTML?

you may try to treat anything beetween description tags with htmlentities()
a then revert it with html_entity_decode().

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hope it helps
Barbara

[Michelle]

Barbara "bev" T. wrote:

Hi

I am trying to write a general function XML file parser, but it keeps
choking when it finds embedded HTML within the text, for example:

<item>
<title>New PHP eBooks in PDF</title>
<description>
<p style="color: red">This entry was brought to you by
<a href="http://tutorials.lockergnome.com/">Lockergnome's
Tutorials</a></p><strong>New PDFs are Available!</strong>...
</description>

When I try to read this all I get is "p style=" (no quotes). Is there
a function or routine I can use to read this as text so that it can
be printed out in HTML?

you may try to treat anything beetween description tags with htmlentities()
a then revert it with html_entity_decode().

I tried that but I can't seem to insert the conversion function into the
the xml parser read at the proper time. For example this code:

if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, htmlentities($data), feof($source)))
{
die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

produces the following error:
"XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line"

inserting the function later does nothing??

miki

[Barbara \bev\ T.]

> I tried that but I can't seem to insert the conversion function into the

the xml parser read at the proper time. For example this code:

if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, htmlentities($data), feof($source)))
{
die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

well that's not good.
assuming you don't know the tags that may occur in description part, you
should be able to determine the xml tags that'll be there, so
here's what I did (worked for me):

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
if (in_array($tag_name,$tags_array)){
//do something
} else return false;
}

where tags_array could be: array('ITEMS','ITEM','TITLE','DESCRIPTION')

if you don't know the xml tags... we'll have a problem unless someone else
helps you :)

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Regards
Barbara