SimpleXML Problem $_POST['data']

[Andieuk]

I'm pretty new to this thing called XML so I have scratched my head a bit.

 

My users are to paste a xml string in to a form for processing, my problem is that when I load the xml direct from a file data.xml on the server using

$xml = simplexml_load_file('data.xml']);

My data is parsed fine and all works well. When I try to use the same xml posted via a form $_POST['data'] I get an error I/O warning : failed to load external entity.The 2 code snippets I have tried to use are below

$xml = simplexml_load_file($_POST['RaidString']);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($_POST['RaidString']);

 

 

 

[Andieuk]

I found the answer myself, the attributes in the posted XML had the \" in them when passed to the simplexml object.

$_POST['Log'] = trim(str_replace("&", "and", html_entity_decode($_POST['Log'])));

resolved my problem.