Php xml eacute error

Question

Please help me here. I got this error

<Name>secret CAKES &amp; CAF&Eacute; imited</Name> XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: http://localhost/xml.php 

in my php

 htmlentities($row['companys'],ENT_QUOTES) 

Answer 1

É - A valid HTML object, but not a valid XML object (unless you define it).

Use htmlspecialchars instead.

Make sure your XML document also defines the correct encoding.

Answer 2

Your XML file is invalid because É is not the default character character for XML documents.

You must replace it with É or correctly encode it.

Answer 3

& Eacute; is an html object, not xml, so you can only use html or xhtml documents, not XML documents.

For xml

only 5 entities are defined,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references#Predefined_entities_in_XML

You must leave all other objects as Unicode characters in your XML document, and then if you need to convert them to html objects, do this when you display the data from your xml, and not when you create your XML document (then yes, é is converted after parsing xml)

Alternatively, you can define additional html objects in your XML document. This comment on the php htmlentities page uses this method

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php#84327

Answer 4

htmlspecialchars($row['companys'],ENT_QUOTES)