[phpXML] RE: [phpXML] Entities

[Nigel S. on b. of <li...@ae...>]

Thankz Luc,

I checked the lines that you pointed me to and I thought I'd let you know
what I discovered:

When reading though the file I thought !!! "wait a sec! HTML4.0 doesn't
specify an entity encoding for the apostrophe."

I did some research. And sure enough, it is not an HTML entity. The simple '
character is good enough. Also, the " for " is not truly needed in
HTML.

By the way, in my file the semi-colon was missing in the ' entity
conversion array.

The browser still couldn't handle the ' with the ; inserted, so I
adjusted the xml.php file to the ISO Latin set since I am not sure if this
conversion will be needed in another script that I write.

122    /**
123    * var $entities = array ( "&" => "&amp;", "<" => "&lt;", ">" =>
"&gt;",
124    *    "'" => "&apos", '"' => "&quot;" );
125    */
126     var $entities = array ( "&" => "&#38;", "<" => "&#60;", ">" =>
"&#62;",
128        "'" => "&#39;", '"' => "&#34;" );

Now the CDATA Sections seems to render fine in IE5+. :-)

I wonder why the ISO Latin codes were not used in xmlphp. Especially since
ISO 8859/1 is the  8-bit single-byte coded graphic character set.

Thankz again :-)

Liz Bostetter


-----Original Message-----
From: lu...@sa... [mailto:lu...@sa...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:12 AM
To: us...@li...
Subject: [phpXML] Re: phpxml Version 1.N.4


Liz,

I use phpxml for the same reason.

In order to have a correct output I had to empty the array entities (near
line 123
var $entities = array ( );

Luc

At 03:09 24/07/01 +0000, you wrote:
>HI
>
>I am using xmlphp on a site that retreives an XML file from another server.
>The XML file contains
>CDATA Sections.
>When I try to display the contents of the XML file in a table in HTML to a
>browser all the apostrophe characters within the CDATA Section are being
>rendered as &apos as in (Picket's) (Picket&aposs). (I haven't checked to
see
>if other General Entity type characters do this also.)
>The results page's source code shows (Picket&aposs)..... missing
semi-colon?
>
>In the original XML file, the character is typed as a ' and not as the
>entity &apos;.
>
>Any ideas out there of what is going on and how I could correct the HTML
>display?
>
>Thankz for any adive you can give. :-)
>
>Liz


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