XML doesn't like certain characters. Please help!

[brianb]

Hello,

I'm trying to create an XML feed here, but XML doesn't seem to like particular charcters.

Say I have an XML element that looks like so:

<url>http://www.mysite.com/reviews.php?id=804&review=247</url>

See, XML doesn't like the '&' in the line, and if I use something like htmlspecialchars() to clean up the code the URL will incorrect! Any ideas? How do I make this readable by the XML parser and linkable by the person pulling from the feed?

Any help on this is appreciated! Thanks!

[pjleonhardt]

url_encode() ?

[brianb]

Ah ha. Wasnt URLENCODE but rather HTMLENTITIES! Thanks! Your link led me to it!

[pjleonhardt]

yeah, i only put the one there because it had an example of using both on it 😉