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Asked: 2026-06-09T23:09:16+00:00

I want to generate an xml page in php but I found the problem

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I want to generate an xml page in php but I found the problem at decoding / encoding special characters for example ""é""

myCode :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
 <url>
    <loc> &eacute; test &egrave; </loc>
    <priority>1.000</priority>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
 </url>
</urlset>

but i get this message

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 4 at column 19: Entity 'eacute' not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
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  1. Editorial Team

    The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) must not
    appear in their literal form, except when used as markup delimiters,
    or within a comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section.

    (Reference)

    Use this instead

    <loc>&amp;eacute; test &amp;egrave;</loc>

    The & must be encoded as &amp;

    OR use it within a CData section. It says that the following text isn’t markup, but it character data instead.

    <loc><![CDATA[&eacute; test &egrave;]]></loc>
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