Twelvefootsnowman

Thanks for all the help guys! Your suggestions put me on the right track and I've got it solved now.

Errr.. I don't know how to! Could you point me in the right direction, please? As far as I knew, the XML file is just a URL until it's loaded through SimpleXML.

Thanks for the suggestion, but no luck. I tried: $xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url, NULL, LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOWARNING); which removed the error message but didn't convert anything - the $xml variable was empty. Could it just been down to badly written XML files?

I've been completely stumped by an issue with special characters in XML files and was hoping for a bit of help! I'm using SimpleXML to convert XML files into HTML tables. It works fine for 99% of the files I use it for but that annoying 1% chucks up this error: Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: http://www.xml-feed-site.com/xml.php :1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xA9 0x3C 0x2F 0x6F on line 3 All the XML files have '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>' as the first line which I thought meant they were in UTF-8 format (though, this is my first attempt at working with XML so I'm not really sure :-\). From what I understand, the issue is that the XML files in question has a few annoying special characters that appear as "�" in them which stops my simplexml_load_file function from converting it. Is there anyway I can get SimpleXML to delete, change or remove these non-standard characters while it's converting the XML? PLEASE NOTE: http://www.xml-feed-site.com/xml.php isn't the real URL I'm using, it's just an example!