parsing xml

ayah

hi,
im trying to parse xml files (actually xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8", rss version="2.0" and encoding="iso-8859-1",
everything is working great, but if in the document, there is an "&" (in a link or in the text), the parser panics and completely stops. However i cannot change the document (delete the & )because 1-the link wouldnt work and 2- i need to parse hundreds of rss feeds and checking each one for & would be crazy!
any ideas anyone??? please???
ayah

laserlight

Use htmlentities() on the string first.

Quite simply, you cant have random ampersands when parsing XML.
They must be of the &amp; form.

ayah

im sorry, the ampersands are not alone, it is '&amp' when its in the link and '&quot' when it's in the text. and i tried using htmlentities but it doesnt work.
in fact this is my code (where $filename is reuterspoliticsnews.xml for the '&amp' thing and bbcme.xml for the '&quot' thing, one of them attached here, and the other in the nextthread, just change the extension from .txt to .xml):

$data = implode("",file($filename));
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLD
ING,0);
xml_parser_set_option($parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHIT
E,1);
xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$data,$values,$tags)
;
_parser_free($parser);

i really appreciate the help, its for a project i have due in 2 days

Ayah

ayah

this is the second xml file