Help with XML, PHP and CDATA

Question

I have the following contents in my XML file:

<items>
<item id="1"><content><![CDATA[<p>string</p>]]></content></item>
</items>

I have HTML inside the content, so, I used CDATA. However, when I'm trying to display the content as HTML on the web page:

$item_content = $xpath2->query("/bulletin/item[@id='$item_id']/content");
foreach ($item_content as $i)
{
    $a = $dom->createElement('div');
    $a->appendChild($dom->createCDATASection($i->nodeValue));
    // $child = $dom->createElement('div',$i->nodeValue); <--this fails miserably
    $content_tag->appendChild($a);
}

It will get displayed as:

&lt ;p&gt ;string&lt ;/p&gt ;

How do I display it as HTML?

Why are you using DOM to output HTML in php? Why not just echo it out directly as in echo $i->nodeValue ? — Ramon
– Ramon, Commented Nov 4, 2009 at 10:39
I have to modify an existing app... I'll see what I can do about that echo. — Tower
– Tower, Commented Nov 4, 2009 at 10:45

dusoft · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-04 10:55:01Z

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 $a->appendChild($i->nodeValue);

instead of having:

$a->appendChild($dom->createCDATASection($i->nodeValue));

answered Nov 4, 2009 at 10:55

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 20:08:53Z

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With html_ entity_decode(), it's possible to convert the html entities to normal characters.

edited Nov 17, 2023 at 20:08

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answered Nov 4, 2009 at 10:37

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user201887 · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-04 10:40:14Z

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I think you can use the html_entity_decode() function.

answered Nov 4, 2009 at 10:40

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