PHP/XML question

[drivetowin]

Hi

I'm having a Monday morning senile moment

I'm trying to process an XML file using PHP and its all working fine except for a field containing a deeplink url which is of the form http://xxx.com/?a=xxx&b=xxx&c=xxx

My guess is the reason its not working is that the XML parser is seeing the = and thinking that they are field,value pairs within the XML string when I just want it to pass me back the whole field.

What do I need to do to get it to do this - I'm sure I've encountered and solved this in the past but this morning I just cannot get my mind around it.

Thanks

Keith

[Rich]

It could be its invalid XML, try opening it directly with IE and see if it can parse it.

I think it could be the &'s that are causing the problem as I think the need encoding to & amp ; unless they are in a CDATA value.

If you are loading the xml into a string before parsing it, you could try doing a str_replace/preg_replace first to change the characters to something that you can then change back later.

If you're using PHP5 the simplexml functions are good for processing xml files. You probably won't want to change your parser due to having to change other parts of the script, but it will give you friendly(ish) errors if the xml is invalid (just try $xml=simplexml_load_file($location-of-xml-file); and it will give you some warnings if there are problems)