[RESOLVED] html validation from an xml feed

[asa_carter]

Hi

How do I get an xml feed that contains characters like '&' to validate to html standards when I parse it with simplexml?

Is there a function that will automatically change & to & for example?

Also is there a function to strip tags from the feed.. So a feed that has <p>blah blah blah</p> is changed to blah blah blah?

I'm using this below but is there something that will do it for all tags?

$tags = array("<p>","</p>");
$description[$j] = str_replace($tags, "", $description[$j]);

Thanks

Asa

[Horizon88]

htmlspecialchars() and strip_tags()!

[NogDog]

[man]htmlspecialchars/man will convert the requisite "special" characters to their character entities. (Or use [man]htmlentities[/man] if you want to convert all characters that have a corresponding entity.)

[asa_carter]

Cheers