xml_parse question

[stasJohn]

php 4.3.11

I'm reading an rss feed and listing the items on my homepage.

I'm using Pears XML_Parser class

If a feed item has an apostrophe in it, it is converted to a question mark.

So,

<item>
  <title>Lot's of fun</title>
  ...
</item>

is printed out as "Lot?s of fun"

Here's my code

$rss =& new XML_RSS("[URL unfurl="true"]http://site.com/feed/");[/URL]
$rss->parse();
$headlines = $rss->getItems();

Now, if I stick an echo after $rss->parse() I can see all the apostrophes converted to question marks. I believe parse() actually uses xml_parse().

Is this a bug? Any ideas why it'd be doing that to the apostrophes?

 

[stasJohn]

Is there some other method I can use that would definetly work?

 

[kenrbnsn]

You can try using the miniXML package <

http://minixml.psychogenic.com/index.html>

Here's some code that uses it to convert the returned XML string to an array.

<?
   include('./minixml.inc.php');
   $nf = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://site.com/feed/';[/URL]
   $xmlDoc = new MiniXMLDoc();
   $gm = fopen($nf,'r');
   $tmp = @fread($gm,30000);
   fclose($gm);
   $xmlDoc->fromString($tmp);
   $tmpa = $xmlDoc->toArray();
   echo '<pre>';print_r($tmpa);echo '</pre>';
?>

Look at the returned array and see if it suits your needs.

Ken

 

[stasJohn]

I'm figured out the problem, well sort of.

It seems that php was not properly detecting the character set of the feed. Which seems odd because UTF-8 is in the xml prolog and everything else I work on is in utf-8. Anywho, I manually set the encoding type to utf-8 and the apostrophes now appear as they should.

So, would this be a php bug? Any ideas? Thanks again.