Invalid Characters, XML...

[Russell P Jones]

Im using PHP to write to XML files, but I am having some problems. A lot
of users are cutting and pasting content from text editors like word,
which uses odd quotation marks, dashes, etc. which PHP writes to the XML
file, and then the XML parser does not under stand. Is there a
stripslashes() or htmlspecialchars() equivalent that will convert this
kind of stuff to the correct ascii text?

Russ

[Russell P Jones]

Any idea on how to get rid of Windows chracters. I have paroblem with
users cutting and pasting out of Microsoft Word into textarea's and
input-boxes and the special characters like quotations and apostrophes
messing up the xml...


Thanks


Russ

[Tom Rogers]

Hi,

Monday, August 4, 2003, 2:03:57 PM, you wrote:

RPJ> Any idea on how to get rid of Windows chracters. I have paroblem with
RPJ> users cutting and pasting out of Microsoft Word into textarea's and
RPJ> input-boxes and the special characters like quotations and apostrophes
RPJ> messing up the xml...


RPJ> Thanks


RPJ> Russ

I do this before feeding it to xml

$description = iconv("ISO-8859-1","UTF-8",$description);

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regards,
Tom