How to export the correct char encode fro an html table into an xml nodeValue?

[Flashed]

Hello!

I can't manage to have a good export from an html table that has chars like 'é', 'ã', 'ç', etc, if I simply take it out of an html table file into, say, a text file. What I am doing is change an html table file into an xml, where the content of the table will be put inside the xml as node values.

If I browse the html file, I see the right chars, but wen I see the source of the html table in the browser, I see that it changes those chars into something like 'á'. The problem is that after I create the xml from that, the xml is not valid because of those chars.

Can anyone help me on this? Please?
Thanks in advance.

[cyberlew15]

try using

preg_replace("/&([a-zA-Z0-9]*);/", "[fix]\\1[/fix]", $xml_variable);

for replacing the & etc then the

preg_replace(preg_replace("/\[fix\](.*?)\[\/fix\]/", "&\\1;", $xml_variable);

to fix it, you can patch this to any chars that aren't working, have fun now