[RESOLVED] XML Help

NZ_Kiwis

I'm wrting a php file that writes a XML file, I want a URL to go between <URL> and </URL> nodes but can i make sure it's not going to corrupt the XML file with all it's & and ' in the URL? is there a way i can do that because right now i get this error

A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource 'http://localhost:8081/scripts/newsxml.php?LastUpdat...

bradgrafelman

Can you show us the resulting XML that was generated which caused that error?

NZ_Kiwis

The XML page cannot be displayed 
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. 


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A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource 'http://localhost:8081/scripts/newsxml.php?LastUpdat...

  <URL>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nrl/news/article.cfm?c_id=270&objectid=10693111&ref=rss
--------------------...

I can't right click and view source i'm sorry.

bradgrafelman

Why can't you? Also, can you simply dump the output to a file instead?

It's hard to say what's causing the problem without even seeing the problem.

NZ_Kiwis

Explorer isn't allowing it.

Firefox says this error

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://localhost:8081/scripts/newsxml.php?LastUpdate=6
Line Number 147, Column 73: <URL> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nrl/news/article.cfm?c_id=270&objectid=10693111&ref=rss
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

But the source file looks okay.

bradgrafelman

My only guess is that the ampersand should be encoded as "&" since "&" is used for encoding characters (thus "&ref=" would be an invalid sequence since it can't be decoded properly).

NZ_Kiwis

so i would need to replace and replace it back later, is there a way to get around this? i thought there was.

bradgrafelman

NZ_Kiwis wrote:
replace it back later

Er.. no you wouldn't? "&" translates to "&".

NZ_Kiwis

Arr you're correct, the URL still works.

THanks for the help.