How do I make & a literal character in an XML parse?

[Ivan Marsh]

Hey Folks,

....and here I thought I was done with my AJAX application.

The XML my PHP app is returning to my JavaScript function has elements in
it that contain special characters... specifically the ampersand & which
hoses up the data. ex: Company Name = "K & B Construction".

Can anyone give me some idea of how I make the data coming out of my
database translate as literal characters in the XML output?

-thx

 

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Can anyone give me some idea of how I make the data coming out of my
database translate as literal characters in the XML output?

Simply by applying the htmlentities or htmlspecialchars function.


JW

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

The XML my PHP app is returning to my JavaScript function has elements in
it that contain special characters... specifically the ampersand & which
hoses up the data. ex: Company Name = "K & B Construction".

Can anyone give me some idea of how I make the data coming out of my
database translate as literal characters in the XML output?

I think you should deal with this at the PHP side because '&' is
reserved for the declaration of entities. The best way is to encode
your special chars to html entities before adding them to the XML file.
I'ld say that PHP should have ready-to-go regexes for this kind of
things.

If necessary, you could add !ENTITY !DOCTYPE !ELEMENT headers etc, but
don't rely too much on parser-specific implementations. You'll do
yourself a big favour with that

 

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Ivan Marsh wrote:

The XML my PHP app is returning to my JavaScript function has elements in
it that contain special characters... specifically the ampersand & which
hoses up the data. ex: Company Name = "K & B Construction".

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Not sure, if you need CDATA.

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Ivan Marsh wrote:

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Not sure, if you need CDATA.

I just parsed them into &amp; and it works fine. Thanks.