Fix malformed XML in PHP before processing using DOMDocument functions

Question

I\'m needing to load an XML document into PHP that comes from an external source. The XML does not declare it\'s encoding and contains illegal characters like &

Answer 1

To solve this issue, set the DomDocument recover property to TRUE before loading XML Document

$dom->recover = TRUE;

Try this code:

$feedURL = '3704017_14022010_050004.xml';
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->recover = TRUE;
$dom->load($feedURL);