ID: 43347 User updated by: pschmandra at hotmail dot com -Summary: xml_parse() function is broken Reported By: pschmandra at hotmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: XML Reader Operating System: Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment:
Changed summary. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-20 14:58:22] pschmandra at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ After upgrading PHP5 the xml_parse() parser throws Warning: xml_parse() [function.xml-parse]: input conversion failed due to input error, bytes 0xA3 0xEE 0x7D 0x5F when parsing Chineese Traditional BBC News Feed. newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/taiwan_hk/rss.xml. This function works perfectly using PHP4. Googling this error brings ~800 similar results. Reproduce code: --------------- if(!xml_parse($this->feedReader, $BBC_data)){ $this->in_error = true; $this->error_msg = sprintf("XML Error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->feedReader)), xml_get_current_line_number($this->feedReader)); } Expected result: ---------------- Expect xml_parse() function to parse feed without crashing ala PHP4. Actual result: -------------- xml_parse() function crashes throwing Warning: xml_parse() [function.xml-parse]: input conversion failed due to input error, bytes 0xA3 0xEE 0x7D 0x5F ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43347&edit=1