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Asked: 2026-05-13T10:24:38+00:00

I’m trying to parse an XML string containing characters & < and > in

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I’m trying to parse an XML string containing characters & < and > in the TEXTDATA. Normally, those characters should be htmlencoded, but in my case they aren’t so I get the following messages:

Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [function.loadXML]: error parsing attribute name in Entity …
Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [function.loadXML]: Couldn’t find end of Start Tag …

I can use the str_replace to encode all the &, but if I do that with < or > I’m doing it for valid XML tags too.

Does anyone know a workaround for this problem??

Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have a < inside text in an XML… it’s not a valid XML. Try to encode it or to enclose them into <![CDATA[.

    If it’s not possible (because you’re not outputting this “XML”) I’d suggest to try with some Html parsing library (I didn’t used them, but they exists) beacuse they’re less strict than XML ones.

    But I’d really try to get valid XML before trying any other thing!!

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