Regular expression to match “>”, “<”, “&” chars that appear inside XML nodes

Question

I\'m trying to write a regular expression using the PCRE library in PHP.

I need a regex to match only &, > and < cha

Answer 1

Classic example of garbage in, garbage out. The real solution is to fix the broken XML exporter, but obviously that's out of the scope of your problem. Sounds like you might have to manually parse the XML, run htmlentites() on the contents, then put the XML tags back.