'xmlParseEntityRef: no name' warnings while loading xml into a php file

Question

I am reading an xml in php using simplexml_load_file. However while trying to load the xml it displays a list of warnings

Warning: simplexml_loa         


        

Answer 1

Try to clean the HTML first using this function:

$html = htmlspecialchars($html);

Special chars are usually represented differently in HTML and it might be confusing for the compiler. Like & becomes &.