Getting rid of special characters
JustWondering
XML file. I use DOMDocument to process the XML doc.
Every once in a while, someone includes some special characters, or
HTML code in the tweet's body, and that trips DOMDocument (when I do --
>saveXML()). Would anyone have advice on how to get rid of special
characters, and HTML code from a string?
Daniel Egeberg
What kind of error message do you get? What do you mean with "special
characters"? You could probably use a regular expression to do like
$string = preg_replace('#\W#', '', $string);, but to give an optimal
solution, more information would be needed.
JustWondering
Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: PCDATA invalid Char
value 11
satya-weblog.com
What about using <![CDATA[ ........ ]]>
or HTML encode the data!
"Álvaro G. Vicario"
This suggest that the XML file is not valid... Can you load the XML file
within a web browser? Can you provide a sample?
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JustWondering
<alvaro.NOSPAMTH...@demogracia.com.invalid> wrote:
> El 22/12/2009 5:36, JustWondering escribió:
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>
>
> > On Dec 21, 4:05 pm, Daniel Egeberg<degeb...@php.net> wrote:
> >> On Dec 21, 6:55 pm, JustWondering<eastside...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> I am collecting some tweets using the Twitter API. The output is an
> >>> XML file. I use DOMDocument to process the XML doc.
>
> >>> Every once in a while, someone includes some special characters, or
> >>> HTML code in the tweet's body, and that trips DOMDocument (when I do -->saveXML()). Would anyone have advice on how to get rid of special
>
> >>> characters, and HTML code from a string?
>
> >> What kind of error message do you get? What do you mean with "special
> >> characters"? You could probably use a regular expression to do like
> >> $string = preg_replace('#\W#', '', $string);, but to give an optimal
> >> solution, more information would be needed.
>
> > Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: PCDATA invalid Char
> > value 11
>
> This suggest that the XML file is not valid... Can you load the XML file
> within a web browser? Can you provide a sample?
>
> --
> -- Mi sitio sobre programación web:http://borrame.com
The XML file structure is valid. One of the elements is labeled
"Text", it works fine, with the exception of one line that has the
following text in it: " (:€:shorty:„:)"
Note that the character that follows the first " is invisible, and
that's what's causing the problem. It's a character below 20 ASCII.
JustWondering
> On Dec 22, 2:38 am, "Álvaro G. Vicario"
>
>
>
> <alvaro.NOSPAMTH...@demogracia.com.invalid> wrote:
> > El 22/12/2009 5:36, JustWondering escribió:
>
> > > On Dec 21, 4:05 pm, Daniel Egeberg<degeb...@php.net> wrote:
> > >> On Dec 21, 6:55 pm, JustWondering<eastside...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> I am collecting some tweets using the Twitter API. The output is an
> > >>> XML file. I use DOMDocument to process the XML doc.
>
> > >>> Every once in a while, someone includes some special characters, or
> > >>> HTML code in the tweet's body, and that trips DOMDocument (when I do -->saveXML()). Would anyone have advice on how to get rid of special
>
> > >>> characters, and HTML code from a string?
>
> > >> What kind of error message do you get? What do you mean with "special
> > >> characters"? You could probably use a regular expression to do like
> > >> $string = preg_replace('#\W#', '', $string);, but to give an optimal
> > >> solution, more information would be needed.
>
> > > Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: PCDATA invalid Char
> > > value 11
>
> > This suggest that the XML file is not valid... Can you load the XML file
> > within a web browser? Can you provide a sample?
>
> > --
> > -- Mi sitio sobre programación web:http://borrame.com
> > -- Mi web de humor satinado:http://www.demogracia.com
>
> The XML file structure is valid. One of the elements is labeled
> "Text", it works fine, with the exception of one line that has the
> following text in it: " (:€:shorty:„:)"
>
> Note that the character that follows the first " is invisible, and
> that's what's causing the problem. It's a character below 20 ASCII.
Specifically, this is ASCII 11 or hex 0b