Question

So I have XML with perfectly nested tags, however I’m ending up with weird characters directly outside of tags, such as:

<root><a_tag>Some perfectly valid string</a_tag> this
<b_tag>more data</b_tag>  
<c_tag>some more data</c_tag> 0</root>

Is there a function in PHP that does this natively, or will I need a regex to accomplish it?

Only function I’m already running on is from this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3466049

Edit: When opening the file with emacs, the end of each line has a set of characters such as: ^@ or ^@S

Also – these documents were generated with InDesign.

Thanks!

Answer 1

After a lot of wasted time, the issue was simply Adobe InDesign producing a lot of weird characters into the exported XML – the ultimate solution ended up being altering an InDesign setting called:

Remap Break, Whitespace, and Special Characters

Which solved the XML issues instantly.