character entity causing parser confusion

[opengavel]

When parsing an XML file for a field containing a legal document's title (i.e., "Smith v. Jones"), I am having problems when the amp. character entity is encountered. The PHP parser seems to break up the tag's contents around the entity (and change the named & entity to the actual "&" character.

For example, "A & M Company v. Jones" becomes three parts "A" "&" and "M Company v. Jones".

I have been assuming the solution involves changing the PHP parser code somehow but I haven't gotten any responses on the PHP boards.

I am pretty new at this and I am not that familiar with how to deal with character encoding issues.

Thanks

 

[Miros]

I read the PHP boards, and I haven't seen it there! Maybe you gave a better problem description here? Anyhow...

If your company name is coming back as an array, you can make it into one string with implode:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php

You can also use htmlentities to put the & back in:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php