DOM XML and Accentuation

Anon

I´ve written a XML parser using PHP´s DOM XML functions. Problem is: the XML documents hold text in Portuguese... and xmldoc() doesn´t seem to handle accents correctly.

My XML docs start with:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

When I omit the "enconding=..." part, xmldoc() returns NULL. When this part is present, accents are converted by xmldoc() into some strange characters.

Questions:
1) Does anyone know how to solve it?
2) Does anyone experienced using the other XML function set (the one that uses the SAX method) to parse documents with accentuation?

Thanks in advance,

Bruno

blindtoad

If you look up the different iso-?? codes you'll be able to find one that deals with those characters. Try [encoding="UTF-8"] The quick and dirty approach would be just to wrap all your text in CDATA sections e.g. <mynode><![CDATA[special characters and words]]>...

Anon

John,
encoding='ISO-8859-1' is the one I have to use. It seems accentuation support was not implemented in DOM XML functions yet.

I am going to rewrite my parser using SAX XML functions, the older XML function set.

But I´m not sure it will deal with accents correctly...

Has anyone ever experienced this?

Thanks,

Bruno