Question

I need to build a XML file of my SQL table.
This is my code:

   $domtree = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); 
   $xmlRoot = $domtree->createElement("xml"); 
   $xmlRoot = $domtree->appendChild($xmlRoot); 

  $query = "SELECT * FROM table1 order by Id"; 
  $result = mysql_query($query,$GLOBALS[dbhand]); 
  $numRows = mysql_num_rows($result); 
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        $currentTrack = $domtree->createElement("Orders"); 
        $currentTrack = $xmlRoot->appendChild($currentTrack); 

        $currentTrack->appendChild($domtree->createElement('Item1',$row["Item2"])); 
        $currentTrack->appendChild($domtree->createElement('Item2',$row["Item2"])); 
  }
  echo utf8_encode($domtree->saveXML()); 

The problem is that in Item2 there is “HTML” code, like this

<b>text</b><br>more text

What do I have to do to get this exported to my XML file??

Answer 1

Take a look at PHP’s htmlspecialchars function.

Or possibly htmlentities.