xmlParseEntityRef no name warnings while loading xml into a php file

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I am reading an xml in php using simplexml load file  However while trying to load the xml it displays a list of warnings  Warning  simplexml load file    function simplexml-load-file    lt project orderno  6  campaign name  International Relief  amp  Development  project in  home bluecard1 public html test php on line 3     Warning  simplexml load file    function simplexml-load-file     in  home bluecard1 public html test php on line 3     Warning  simplexml load file    function simplexml-load-file   http        index php site projects  15  parser error   xmlParseEntityRef  no name in  home bluecard1 public html test php on line 3  Warning  simplexml load file    function simplexml-load-file   ional Relief  amp  Development  project id  313  client name  International Relief  amp  in  home bluecard1 public html test php on line 3     Warning  simplexml load file    function simplexml-load-file     in  home bluecard1 public html test php on line 3     Warning  simplexml load file    function simplexml-load-file   http        index php site projects  15  parser error   xmlParseEntityRef  no name in  home bluecard1 public html test php on line 3   How do I rectify to remove these warnings     XML is generated from url http        index php site projects  amp  loaded into  a variable in the test php  I dont have write priveleges to index php

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Try to clean the HTML first using this function:

$html = htmlspecialchars($html);

Special chars are usually represented differently in HTML and it might be confusing for the compiler. Like & becomes &.

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PROBLEM    PHP function simplexml load file is throwing parsing error parser error   xmlParseEntityRef while trying to load the XML file from a URL       CAUSE    XML returned by the URL is not a valid XML  It contains  amp  value instead of  amp amp   It is quite possible that there are other errors which aren t obvious at this point of time       THINGS OUT OF OUR CONTROL    Ideally  we should make sure that a valid XML is feed into PHP simplexml load file function  but it looks like we don t have any control over how the XML is created   It is also not possible to force simplexml load file to process an invalid XML file  It does not leave us with many options  other than fixing the XML file itself       POSSIBLE SOLUTION   Convert Invalid XML to Valid XML  It can be done using PHP tidy extension  Further instructions can be found from http   php net manual en book tidy php  Once you are sure that the extension exists or is installed  please do the following           As per the question asked  the URL is loaded into a variable first      which we can assume to be  xml      xml    lt  lt  lt XML  lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt project orderno  6  campaign name  International Relief  amp  Development for under developed nations  gt       lt invalid-data gt Some other data containing  amp  in it lt  invalid-data gt       lt unclosed-tag gt   lt  project gt  XML          Whenever we use tidy it is best to pass some configuration options     similar to  tidyConfig  In this particular case we are making sure that    tidy understands that our input and output is XML       tidyConfig   array        indent    gt  true       input-xml    gt  true        output-xml    gt  true       wrap    gt  200            Now we can use tidy to parse the string and then repair it       tidy   new tidy   tidy- gt parseString  xml   tidyConfig   utf8     tidy- gt cleanRepair            If we try to output the repaired XML string by echoing  tidy it should look like      lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt    lt project orderno  6  campaign name  International Relief  amp amp  Development for under developed nations  gt         lt invalid-data gt Some other data containing  amp amp  in it lt  invalid-data gt         lt unclosed-tag gt  lt  unclosed-tag gt    lt  project gt       As you can see that  amp  is now fixed in campaign name attribute     and also with-in invalid-data element  You can also see that the        lt unclosed-tag gt  which didn t had a close tag  has been fixed too      echo  tidy          Now when we try to use simplexml load string to load the clean XML  When we    try to print r it should look something like below    SimpleXMLElement Object         attributes    gt  Array                        orderno    gt  6              campaign name    gt  International Relief  amp  Development for under developed nations                 invalid-data    gt  Some other data containing  amp  in it      unclosed-tag    gt  SimpleXMLElement Object                               simpleXmlElement   simplexml load string  tidy    print r  simpleXmlElement        CAUTION   The developer should try to compare the invalid XML with a valid XML  generated by tidy   to see there are no adverse side effects after using tidy  Tidy does an extremely good job of doing it correctly  but it never hurts to see it visually and to be 100  sure  In our case it should be as simple as comparing  xml with  tidy

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This solve my probl  me    description   strip tags  value  Description      description preg replace    amp       a-z0-9          amp amp     description    description  preg replace       r n     r n     s t    r n        n    description    description str replace    amp        amp amp     html entity decode  htmlspecialchars decode  description

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I use a combined version    strip tags preg replace    amp       a-z0-9          amp amp    textorhtml

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The XML is most probably invalid   The problem could be the   amp     text preg replace    amp       a-z0-9          amp amp     text     will get rid of the   amp   and replace it with it s HTML code version   give it a try

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If you are getting this issue with opencart try editing      catalog controller extension feed google sitemap php   For More info and How to do it refer this  xmlparseentityref-no-name-error

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This is in deed due to characters messing around with the data  Using htmlentities  yourText  worked for me  I had html code inside the xml document   See http   uk3 php net htmlentities

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Found this here         Problem  An XML parser returns the error    xmlParseEntityRef  noname         Cause  There is a stray     amp      ampersand character  somewhere in the XML text eg  some text  amp  some more text      Solution          Solution 1  Remove the ampersand    Solution 2  Encode the ampersand     that is replace the  amp  character with  amp amp     Remember to Decode    when reading the XML   text    Solution 3  Use CDATA sections  text    inside a CDATA section will be ignored by the parser   eg      lt   CDATA some text  amp  some more   text            Note      amp         lt         will all give problems if not handled correctly

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The XML is invalid    lt   CDATA    INVALID XML     gt     CDATA should be wrapped around all special XML characters  as per W3C

[php] 'xmlParseEntityRef: no name' warnings while loading xml into a php file

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