SimpleXml Element: Special Characters Error

Question

I am using simpleXml to parse my xml but it always breaks the page when i try to parse Spanish, french, Estonian, Portuguese, superscripts or subscripts.

Any Idea ??

Example of the XML :-

<carddata> <logo_id>0</logo_id> <cscale>Ñ</cscale><carddata>

Scripts :-

$carddetail = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
$carddetail = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-15//TRANSLIT', $carddetail);

In the xml i sent

<cscale><![CDATA[Peter Nortoné]]></cscale> 

and the error is:

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 22: parser error : CData section not finished Peter Nort in D:\xampp\htdocs\logosnap\card.php on line 144

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: <text><\![CDATA[Peter Norton in D:\xampp\htdocs\logosnap\card.php on line 144

Answer 1

$carddetail = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);  
<-- this set $carddetail as simplexmlelement object

You can't use the object as string like :-

$carddetail = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-15//TRANSLIT', $carddetail);

So, try this :-

$carddetail = new SimpleXMLElement(iconv('UTF-8','ISO-8859-15//TRANSLIT',$xml));