Comments on: PHP5’s SimpleXML Now Passes CDATA Content

By: Evan K

Evan K — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:27:35 +0000

For anyone whoâ€™s still stuck using PHP 5â€™s simplexml before v5.1.0 (like me), you can use a fairly simple regex to filter any cdata and collapse them into regular text nodes:

function cdata_to_text($text) {
$result = preg_replace(’//ie’, "htmlentities(’\1′)", $text);
$result = str_replace("\"", """, $result);
return $result;
}

By: James Constable

James Constable — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:05:55 +0000

Thanks. This was doing my head in for a couple of hours yesterday. Thought my xml was at fault until i found this article. Glad they’ve fixed it. Its a major oversight otherwise.

By: nico

nico — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:32:09 +0000

thanx a lot for my nerves with this article !

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:37:58 +0000

Googled looking for a solution to simpleXml skipping text wrapped in CDATA nodes. Got your page, and tossed in the libXml2 parameter. Worked great! Thanks bud!

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:17:25 +0000

Your comment system has some PHP errors:

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By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:11:02 +0000

I wish more shared hosts would pick up PHP5. All of mine are still using PHP4 and I don’t have access to any of the new XML tools, and I’m afraid to write any thing with PHP4 because they may upgrade and break my scripts. It’s nice to see what there is, even if I can’t use it.

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