$login wont echo

[dman2kxx]

function characterData($parser, $data)
{
global $currentTag;

add HTML tags to the values

switch ($currentTag) {
case "login":
if(trim($data) == "blah") { $login .= $data; }
break;

      case "password": 
          if(trim($data) == "test") { $pass .= $data; echo "pass = $pass & login = [b]$login[/b]"; } 
          break; 
      } 

  } 

Why doesn't echo "...$login"; work in the if statement under case "password": ?

[cahva]

I dont see why it should echo $login. Theres simply no value in $login... If you have given a value to $login in somewhere else, it should be defined to your function parameters:
function characterData($parser, $data,$login)