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[Rob Marscher]

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jim Yi <jim at jimyi.com> wrote:
>> This problem is much better suited for an XML parser
On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Randal Rust wrote:
> I will have to try this out, because I am not sure that the approach I
> was taking will work.

I seem to remember having problems when I was using the DomDocument on rss feeds that were submitted by users and not under my control.  Many of them were not well-formed and that caused DomDocument to not work.  Getting the creator of the rss feed to fix it wasn't an option, but I did have some luck enabling the "recovery" mode of libxml which is available in DomDocument->recovery property - http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php#domdocument.props.recover

Also, if the content is not encoded in utf8, you might need to run utf8_decode on the strings to get the right data because I believe libxml uses utf8 internally.