strip characters from xml htmlentities??

nicknickoli

I know there have been a ton of posts on this but I haven't gotten the right recipe for getting rid of the double-accented-right-quote-with-umlots-and-ordination. It throws a unterminated value error when IE reads the xml.

What is a simple way to convert any string for my XML? Thanks for any advise!

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'ISO-8859-1');
$parnode = $dom->appendChild( $dom->createElement('markers') ); 
$spots = $this->get_spots();
foreach($spots as $spot)
{
	$node = $dom->createElement('marker');
	$newnode = $parnode->appendChild($node);
	foreach($spot as $key => $val) {
		$newnode->setAttribute($key, htmlentities(mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($val), 'ISO-8859-1')));

nicknickoli

I ended up leaving the mbconvert extension turned off but stripped out any odd characters with a regex. And this seemed to grab the weird quotes too. Thanks

			foreach($spot as $key => $val) {
				$val = preg_replace('/[^- ,.!?:;`!@#$&#37;^&*()_+="\'a-zA-Z0-9]+/','^', $val); // wasn't getting a replace on funky quotes in the char set
				$newnode->setAttribute($key, htmlentities($val));
			}

nrg_alpha

That's quite the negated character class you have there. Note that a-zA-Z0-9_ could be replaced with \w.

this seemed to grab the weird quotes too

By this, you mean that odd ` character? If you want that removed, just eliminate it from the pattern, as right now, it is included within the negated character class (thus protected if it shows up in what you are checking your regex pattern against).