CDATA tags is what you need

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Ellis
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On 2010-09-20, at 16:57, Bastien Koert <phps...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, robert mena <robert.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to parse a XML file with simplexml_load but it gave me error.
>>  While inspecting the contents I found a & inside the value of a tag.
>> <tag>something & something</tag>.
>> 
>> After I've removed the & everything went fine.  So which chars I should not
>> put in my file?   Should I use some conversion function like html_entities?
>> 
>> Does the receiver of the XML has to do anything to convert is back?
>> 
> 
> 
> The following should not be used inside XML
> 
> & ampersand
> ' single quote
> " double quote
>> greater than
> < less than
> 
> you could simply wrap all your data in CDATA tags
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> 
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