Home » XML » XML_Beautifier » Bug #220

[2003-11-10 10:01 UTC] saran at inra dot co dot th

Description:
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When pass xml string that has '&' characters to formatString function, it will break to '& AMP;' (Note the space) and thus make this xml invalid.

Reproduce code:
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$store="mark & spencer";
$store=htmlentities($store); // now store=='mark & spencer'
require_once('xml/beautifier.php');
$bf=new XML_Beautifier();
$xml="<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><root><store>$store</store></root>";
$xml=$bf->formatString($xml);
echo $xml;

Expected result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<store>mark & spencer</store>
</root>

Actual result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<store>mark & amp; spencer</store>
</root>

[2003-11-11 02:14 UTC] saran at inra dot co dot th

Please accept my apologies, there is my fault in the first post. I did htmlentities() twice that's why it look like '& AMP;' breaks. But coincidently there is missing special characters treatment routine at that point and it is now fixed in CVS. Thanks for your prompt response and I will be more careful in the next post.