XML Entity not defined in Chrome

Question

My browser is telling me:

error on line 2 at column 308899: Entity 'ntilde' not defined

and the specific line is in my xml as:

<LastName>Trevi&ntilde;o</LastName>

the name was originally Treviño, but it was modified via php's htmlentities function.

What can I do to get php and xml to play nicely?

Using Chrome 19 on Mac.

related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2822774/php-is-htmlentities-sufficient-for-creating-xml-safe-values — Esailija, May 30 '12 at 21:04
I would have gladly used `xmlentities` if such a function existed :( — Jacksonkr, May 31 '12 at 18:23

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '12 at 15:54

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Apparently using htmlspecialchars and htmlentities in tandem does the trick.

htmlspecialchars(htmlentities($value));

answered Jun 01 '12 at 15:54

Jacksonkr

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '12 at 20:59

Are you actually generating XML, or HTML? They're not the same thing. HTML defines a bunch of entities (IIRC) whereas XML has very few "built-in" - just a few like & and <.

Why both using the entity when you can just use the text directly? Simply make sure you're consistent about the encoding you use (UTF-8 would be a good bet).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 30 '12 at 20:59

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You dont need to encode the tilde character in XML. It will throw errors. Best thing to do in this case might be to wrap the text in CDATA.

<LastName><![CDATA[Trevi&ntilde;o]]></LastName>

answered May 30 '12 at 20:59

Darek Rossman

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this works, but when I pass that to `SimpleXML`s `addChild` it ruins the `CDATA` by replacing the `<>` with `<>` – Jacksonkr May 31 '12 at 21:39
Check out this link about exactly that issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3424084/how-to-keep-domdocument-from-saving-as-lt – Darek Rossman Jun 01 '12 at 12:43

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 30 '12 at 21:00

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Try to specify encoding for htmlentities

htmlentities($string,ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');

answered May 30 '12 at 21:00

Pethical

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 16 '21 at 14:58

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It should be: Treviño. An Entity may be missing from your DTD file? something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE Customer
[
<!ENTITY ntilde "&#241;">
]>

<Customer>
<LastName>Trevi&ntilde;o</LastName>
</Customer>

answered Feb 16 '21 at 14:58

75ntamas

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