Question

I am trying to output the text from xml through an html file.Xml file is in UTF-8 format.I saved the string after converting by htmlentities($subcat->Name,ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8").String saved as £1.89 - £3.99 per M² in xml.

While displaying i used htmlentities_decode($cat->Name,ENT_QUOTES).But i am getting this error

Entity ‘Acirc’ not defined.
Entity ‘pound’ not defined

I wonder what went wrong!

Answer 1

Do not use htmlentities() in the first place – most HTML entities are not supported in XML.

Use the actual character data instead.

To avoid < and > in the data breaking the XML, wrap the data in CDATA blocks.

Example:

<product>
 <price>
  <![CDATA[£1.89 - £3.99 per m2]]>
 </price>
</product>