[phpxmlrpc] entity changes

[Andres Salomon]

Sorry, the stuff in CVS needs more work wrt entities; I just haven't had
time lately.  The server should be returning numerical entities instead
of XHTML entities, which is on my TODO list.



On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 02:23, Jeff Barr wrote:
> I am testing out this code and there are still some issues. My server
> is trying to return a string containing the folllowing encoded characters:
> 
>     Ã
>     ¸
>     ø
> 
> If any of these characters are present in the returned string then
> the client (also using PHP XML-RPC) dies like this:
> 
>     XML error: undefined entity at line 10
> 
> The characters appear to be properly encoded in the XML. Here's
> some debug output from the client:
> 
>     <value><string>Børsen
> Online</string></value>
> 
> As an experiment, I stripped these characters out on the client
> side in xmlrpcmsg::parseResponse and I didn't get the undefined
> entity error.
> 
> I believe that the server should insert entity declarations for
> these characters. Is this correct?
> 
> Jeff;
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andres Salomon" <dilinger at voxel.net>
> To: <phpxmlrpc at usefulinc.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 2:11 AM
> Subject: [phpxmlrpc] entity changes
> 
> 
> > Folks, I just committed some changes that address some longstanding issues
> > w/ this xmlrpc implementation, and multibyte characters from various
> > charsets.  I'll be testing these changes some more this week, but if
> > anyone has dealt w/ entity issues in xml or xmlrpc, or has experience w/
> > another xmlrpc library, please look over the changes (see the ChangeLog
> > for additional details).  The things that need addressing are:
> > a) does xmlrpcresp need to be fixed in a similar way?
> > b) should entity translation be done on the server or client?  Are xmlrpc
> > servers expected to know how to handle things like &eacute; (or even
> > &#233;)?
> > c) are there any entities that might be missing?
> >
> >
> >
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