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XML Parser reading html tags

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  • 21-07-2010 1:46pm
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    [PHP]<post>
    <regular-title>this is another test</regular-title>
    <regular-body><b>oh my lols</b></regular-body>
    </post>
    [/PHP]

    [PHP]<?php
    $insideitem = false;
    $tag = "";
    $title = "";
    $description = "";
    $link = "";

    function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
    global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
    if ($insideitem) {
    $tag = $name;
    } elseif ($name == "POST") {
    $insideitem = true;
    }
    }

    function endElement($parser, $name) {
    global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
    if ($name == "POST") {


    echo $title."<br>";
    echo $description;

    $title = "";
    $description = "";
    $link = "";
    $insideitem = false;
    }
    }

    function characterData($parser, $data) {

    global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
    if ($insideitem) {

    switch ($tag) {
    case "REGULAR-BODY":
    $description .=$data;
    break;

    case "REGULAR-TITLE":
    $title .= $data;
    break;

    }
    }
    }

    $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

    xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
    xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");


    $fp = fopen("my.xml","r")
    or die("Error reading RSS data.");
    while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))

    xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
    or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
    xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
    xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    fclose($fp);
    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

    ?>[/PHP]


    case "REGULAR-TITLE":
    works

    case "REGULAR-BODY":
    doesnt

    its because of the <b> tag
    i tried using htmlentities but wont work :/
    cant use SIMPLEXMLLOAD because hosting only has php4 :mad:


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