Problem with SimpleXML and htmlentities

[hansu]

Hi
I load an xml file with simplexml_load_file into the variable $xml. The element 'data' of the xml-file contains an attribute 'temp' with a temperature in degrees Celcius:
<data temp="18°C" fineweather="70%" frostborder="3800"/>

To transform it to xhtml I use:
$vormTemp = htmlentities($xml->weatherdata->day->data[@temp]);

That produces:
18&Acirc;&deg;C which of course looks like 18°C.

I have no idea why the &Acirc; is generated.

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Would it be possible to post a bigger portion of your source XML file?

Do you have control over the content of that XML file?

I've tried passing '18°C' into the htmlentities function and that produces the expected 18&deg;C.

Just a shot in the dark, but you could try specifying a different charset as a parameter to htmlentities.

Clive

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[hansu]

Hi Stretchwickster

Thanks for your hint.
I modified

$vormTemp = htmlentities($xml->weatherdata->day->data[@temp]);

into

$vormTemp = htmlentities($xml->weatherdata->day->data[@temp],HTML_ENTITIES,'UTF-8');

and it works fine now.

Thanks again
Hans Ulrich

 

[Stretchwickster]

You're welcome.

Clive

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