Question

Just a small problem but I’ve noticed that if first line of my xml has encoding="Latin-1" then the php simplexml and dom will throw an error and refuse to import. I did a workaround in which I’d import the xml as a string and regex encoding="Latin-1" into encoding="ISO-8859-1" before loading into the object which then doesn’t throw an error, but I was wondering if there’s a more elegant solution to this? Preferably something internal to the dom object so I can just import from file name.

Answer 1

For anyone interested, this is the code for the workaround:

if ($xml_file_handle = fopen($xml_file_path, "r")) {
    $xml_data = fread($xml_file_handle, filesize($xml_file_path));
    fclose($file_handle);

    $xml_data = preg_replace("/encoding=\"Latin-1\"/i", "encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"", $xml_data);

    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    $dom->loadXML($xml_data);

    // Do stuff with $dom
}