i have built a basic rss parser to parse my own rss files but i am unable to
pass html code into the discription section i am using the default xml
parser provided by php as my server does not support the dom extention yet have any of you had this problem i have tried using-
<![CDATA[
but it still does not work
i was wandering how anyone else solved the problem and how
thanks
xml parsing
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Not sure if I understood what you ment, but, you have to use entity conversion for XML just as you would for HTML, so if you need your data to hold a literal < and > you have to convert them to < and > and such.. there are only a few entities predefined in xml, the rest uses the numeric reference. (I which the PHP-devs would create a xmlspecialchars())
If your mentioning of html is in regards to presentation of data, you should look into XSLT, PHP has XSLT support with the expat and sablotron extension, if compiled in.
I never had a problem with the built in sax parser, if I don't have XML-DOM and need miltidimensional data access i often find it useful to use something like Hans Anderson's code,
http://www.hansanderson.com/php/xml/xmlize.inc.txting, I never used his as is but I often used parts and tweaks of it..
If your mentioning of html is in regards to presentation of data, you should look into XSLT, PHP has XSLT support with the expat and sablotron extension, if compiled in.
I never had a problem with the built in sax parser, if I don't have XML-DOM and need miltidimensional data access i often find it useful to use something like Hans Anderson's code,
http://www.hansanderson.com/php/xml/xmlize.inc.txting, I never used his as is but I often used parts and tweaks of it..