Problem with simplexml_load_string

[rinascimentoman]

Hello,

I'm working on a Twitter app. When I issue a Twitter API call, I get what looks like a valid string loaded into a variable named $query:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user>
<id>49467498</id>
<name>&#991; &#8194;Ci</name>
<screen_name>cici_marioworld</screen_name>
<location>Belo Horizonte</location>
etc. etc.... etc.... (deleted on purpose to keep this post short)
</user>

when i issue a simplexml_load_string($query), I get this error message:

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

Can anyone help?

Thanks very much!

[bpat1434]

The first thing I wonder is if there is white-space or a BOM that you don't see which is causing an issue. Try trimming the returned string, and var_dumping it. See what you see before the <?xml tag.

[rinascimentoman]

Thank you for the suggestion! I'll try it out....