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Asked: 2026-05-15T12:37:04+00:00

Some Background info: My web application stores some XML in a Text column of

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Some Background info: My web application stores some XML in a Text column of the MySQL database. This XML represents a transaction for the application.

The problem occurs when I’m testing my library. Within PHP, I have a string:

$s="<flist><transaction amount=\"10\" type=\"income\">Initial Amount</transaction></flist>";

However, whenever I echo or consecrate this string, it turns into “Initial Amount”. Am I missing a feature of PHP? How can I fix this? Wow! As I’m creating this post, StackOverflow is transforming that XML into $s=Initial Amount as well… Please help… Thank-you for your time as this completely perplexes me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    PHP doesn’t automatically parse the string.

    Are you echoing it and viewing it in a browser? It’s very likely that the browser skips over the unknown tags and shows what it can. You might want to considering adding in htmlspecialchars() to your output like so:

    echo htmlspecialchars($s);

    You should also see it correctly when viewing the web source. This is a feature of HTML to support future versions without breaking current ones.

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