PHP SimpleXml Parser Error

Jan 12, 2010

If you use PHP with SimpleXml to parse xml you may run across a strange issue where SimpleXml fails to parse perfectly formatted xml. You'll likley get an error like this

Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:
Entity: line 1: parser error : AttValue: " or ' expected 

Chances are the PHP server has 'magic quotes' turned on. To get around the issue, add a strip slashes command to the xml string before parsing it. So your php would change from

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr); 

 to

$xml = simplexml_load_string(stripslashes($page));

 Hope that helps someone, frustrating bug to track down.

2 Comments:

1. Rafael
   Jun 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM
   

   Helped me! Thanks!

2. amitesh
   Jun 26, 2010 at 5:55 AM
   

   Thanks Buddy...dis issue has wasted 6 hours of my time...
   thankssss a lottttttttttttttttt :)