Question

I need a template-engine for a project, that parses sgml-content and converts user-defined tags like <ext:grid />. In nearly every case, the input-content is valid. A common problem is the link-generator. The link-generator produces & instead of & which is the main cause of my parsing-problems. I cant change this behavior, because the output of that generator is used in many other situations where the links are required to have an & instead of &.

I have tried DOMDocument, SimpleXML and xml_parser. They all exit on entity problems. Any ideas? All I want is, that this “problem” gets simply ignored by the parser.

Where is a test-template:

<template xmlns:grid="templates/grid" xmlns:std="templates/std">
    <std:header text="Overview" type="h1" />
    <grid:base width="100%">
        <grid:columns>
        <grid:body>
            <?php foreach($products as $product): /* @var $product Dfm_Shop_Model_Product */ ?>
            <grid:row selectable="1">
                <grid:cell>
                    <div><?php echo $this->esc($product->getTitle()) ?></div>
                </grid:cell>
                <grid:cell>
                    <a href="<?php env()->http()->to(array('controller' => 'Dfm_Shop_Controller_Products', 'method' => 'showEdit')) ?>"><std:img src="icons/pencil.png" hint="Edit" /></a>
                </grid:cell>
            </grid:row>
            <?php endforeach ?>
        </grid:body>
    </grid:base>
</template>

Answer 1

Can you just search-replace your & to & before trying to parse the document?

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Edit: Just to add for the completeness, there’s for example QueryPath that can handle invalid tags, too.

According to the thread linked above, libxml functions should’ve also worked.