Parsing & (need help)

[Anon]

How do you correctly parse this tag...

<title>&amp;quot;Billy Elliot&amp;quot;</title>

...where $data is the text between the <title> tags ...

$data = str_replace('&amp;quot;','\"',$data); // doesn't work

[Anon]

NOTE: the tag includes & amp; (concatinated together) -- not just & -- the forum software displayed the orignal post as simply &.

[Anon]

Where are you getting this data from? Are htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() being run on the data?

I don't see why the str_replace wouldn't work. I usually use double quotes, but I don't think that's a problem, is it?

$string = str_replace("&amp;","&",$string);
$string = str_replace("&quot;","\"",$string);

The first one should replace the & followed by amp followed by semicolon.

Second one should replace & followed by quot followed by semicolon.

I'm not sure how this will all look when the forum decodes it.

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

Will you check my source (problem lines marked "<-- here **"):

 http://www.jamesthornton.com/code/salon.phps

You can view the problem at:

 http://www.jamesthornton.com/code/salon.php

The xml file is:

 http://www.jamesthornton.com/salon_use.rdf