Question

I am simply trying to create this string

$post_string ='<?xml version="1.0" ?>
  <AmazonEnvelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="amznenvelope.xsd">
  <Header>
  <DocumentVersion>1.01</DocumentVersion>
  <MerchantIdentifier>Outdoor_outlet_seller</MerchantIdentifier>
  </Header>
  <MessageType>Product</MessageType>
  <PurgeAndReplace>true</PurgeAndReplace>
  <Message>
    <MessageID>' . rand(1,1000) . '</MessageID>
    <OperationType>Update</OperationType>
  <Product>
    <SKU>'. $product->getSKU() . error_log("Got sku of product" . $product->getSKU()).'</SKU>

    <ProductTaxCode>A_GEN_TAX</ProductTaxCode>
    <LaunchDate>' . date('Y-m-d') . 'T' . date('H:i:sO') . '</LaunchDate>
  <DescriptionData>
    <Brand>'. $product->getBrand() . error_log($product->getBrand()) . '</Brand>
    <Description>' . $product->getDescription() . '</Description>
    <ItemType>Sports & Outdoors</ItemType>
  </DescriptionData>
    </Message>
  </AmazonEnvelope>';

For some reason, everything just stops when the script reaches the “Brand” line of the xml and I cannot find out why. Has anyone here had a similar problem? It would be fantastic if someone could help me out with this 🙂 Thanks!

Answer 1

Maybe the node value its not in a valid xml format so go and tell xml not to parse the value … Use cdata tags <Brand><![CDATA['. $product->getBrand() . error_log($product->getBrand()) . ']]></Brand> ….

For reference you may want to read: [w3schools on xml CDATA]