How to escape html markup in xml ?

Hi all,

When I form an XML document from some text containing html tags, xml parser tries to parse the non xml markup too.

Below is a sample XML code to better illustrate the situation:

<heading>
there is some html here <img src="../img/x.jpg> to be escaped
</heading>

Normally this data should not contain html markup in xml but since this comes from a kind of legacy stuff it's hard to normalize all that data.

Is there a way to escape these html tags when parsing xml ?

Any help deeply appreciated.

Thx. in advance.

Ilker

Run the HTML through htmlspecialchars() before embedding it in the XML.

htmlspecialchars function works on a relatively small set of html characters like
&gt (>) and this causes too much encoding overhead.

Last night I've tried to embed the data containing html markup in a CDATA section. It seems to work fine for now.

Thx. for your contribution.

Ilker