Intresting xml parsing problem

blaci

Hi!

I am using the following php script avaible at php.net:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

<?php
$file = "data.xml";

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs)
{
}

function endElement($parser, $name)
{
}

function characterData($parser, $data)
{
   echo $data;
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
// use case-folding so we are sure to find the tag in $map_array
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, true);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
   die("could not open XML input");
}

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
   if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
       die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                   xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                   xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
   }
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>

The porblem is that if the characterdata $data contains the & character, the value of $data will not be good.

ex:

In this case the value of $data will be:
http://www.alma.io/as.php?id=12
and NOT
http://www.alma.io/as.php?id=12&b=15

How to solve this problem?

Example of this kind of xml:
http://www.romanialibera.ro/editie/rss.php

And the result of my parser:
http://stiri.traficdublu.ro/xml/rolibera.php
The result is wrong!

Thnaks for your answer!