escaping problematic characters for Sab

[Anon]

I'm working with an XML file -- I generate the file w/php from mySql and then I'm trying to parse it with Sablotron...

When I try to load it w/Sab, it errs out and says "Sablotron error on line 208: XML parser error 4: not well-formed (invalid token)"

But when I load it into XmlSpy and then re-save it without editing the file, Sablotron works fine.

The offending char, I think, is the (TM) character. Even thoguh it's all enclosed in a CDATA node with ', ", and < escaped, it's erring on this.

My question: Is there a catch-all escape function for php, or some way that I need to encode the data before I write the XML file, so that it will parse, no matter what weird characters are inputted?

Thanks for the help
Scott Zagar

[Anon]

Maybe htmlentities will work.

Failing that, a preg_replace that will convert all characters with ord>127 to numeric entities would be

$xml = preg_replace('/([\x80-\xff])/e','"&#".ord("\1").";"', $xml)

[Anon]

Thanks Grumbler, that's it, the regexp. awesome, totally awesome

Scott