PHP - SimpleXML parse error

Question

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I\'m parsing somewhat large (~15MB) XML files with PHP for the first time using SimpleXML. The files are flig

Answer 1

Darryl has the right answer as to why this is happening in his comment above. One way of fixing this would be to do a str_replace() to replace all '&' ampersands with '&' in the XML. According to the PHP manual you could also use this regular expression to replace ampersands with their entities:

$s = preg_replace('/&[^; ]{0,6}.?/e', "((substr('\\0',-1) == ';') ? '\\0' : '&'.substr('\\0',1))",