Question

When I am parsing an XML file, there are some <none> tags that the system automatically generates for various fields… BUT, There are no </none> tags .
So, my XML parser gives errors and is not parsing the ENTIRE file.

How do I get rid of this error?

$xml = simplexml_load_file($newfile3);  

<none> is not a tag … So, I just want to ignore this or replace with something else like “none” …

Answer 1

$newfile3 = str_replace('<none>', '&lt;none&gt;', $newfile3);

basically replace the bad ‘tag’ with the two metacharacters encoded into entities.