XML error: Invalid character !!!!

[seco]

Hi

this error appears to me when using xml_parser_create() why? the text im parsing is arabic and the xml file encoding is UTF8

 

any help ??

by the way no errors appear when the content of the xml is english text

 

thanks in advance.

 

[effigy]

Does this help?

[seco]

thanks for reply

 

i write

xml_parser_set_option($this->xml,XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, "UTF-8");

xml_parser_set_option($this->xml,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);

 

and still the same error message "XML error: Invalid character"

i try also windows-1256 it says unsupported encoding

 

any help?

 

thanks in advance.

 

[dsaba]

make sure the actual php script is encoded in utf-8 if your injecting the utf-8 variable from within the script

 

post some problem code, duh?

[seco]

this is the class that return error when parsing xml

 

 

<?php
    class XmlParser {
        var $xml;
        var $lastnode = array();
        var $struct = array();

        function XmlParser($xml) {
            $this->xml = xml_parser_create('');
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
xml_parser_set_option($this->xml,XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, "UTF-8");
xml_parser_set_option($this->xml,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

            xml_set_object($this->xml, $this);
            xml_set_element_handler($this->xml, 'tag_open', 'tag_close');
            xml_set_character_data_handler($this->xml, 'cdata');
            $this->lastnode = array(&$this->struct);
            if (!xml_parse($this->xml, $xml)) {
                die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->xml)), xml_get_current_line_number($this->xml)));
            }
            xml_parser_free($this->xml);
        }

        function tag_open($parser, $tag, $attributes) {
            $c = count($this->lastnode) - 1;
            $this->lastnode[$c][] = array('tag'    => $tag, 'attrib' => $attributes,
                                          'data'   => '',   'childs' => array());
            $this->lastnode[] = &$this->lastnode[$c][count($this->lastnode[$c]) - 1]['childs'];
        }
        function tag_close($parser, $tag) {
            array_pop($this->lastnode);
        }

        function cdata($parser, $cdata) {
            if (strlen(ltrim($cdata)) > 0) {
                $p = count($this->lastnode) - 2;
                $this->lastnode[$p][count($this->lastnode[$p]) - 1]['data'] .= str_replace('\n', "\n", trim($cdata));
            }
        }
    }
?>

[seco]

any idea why the parser fails with me

[seco]

thanks for reply

 

i generate xml and using UTF-8 like

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0','UTF-8');

and generated successfully

 

and then this xml file is parsed with the upper class xmlparser it gives me xml error because the non-english content

any help please?

 

thanks in advance.