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    <p>SEE EDITS AT BOTTOM TO SHOW MORE ACCURATE ERROR OUTPUT</p> <p>I'm parsing somewhat large (~15MB) XML files with PHP for the first time using SimpleXML. The files are flight search results so they have long attributes (links back to Kayak; example:<br> "/book/flightcode=1238917408.NxJI6G.0.F.ORBITZAIR,ORBITZAIR.0.f36f1ea92513977249aa695112410052&amp;<em>sid</em>=26-Vu01v7ilzhSAjPVLZ3Ul"</p> <p>SimpleXML throws this error when parsing:</p> <p>"Entity: line 10: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' in" and then; </p> <p>"38917408.NxJI6G.0.F.ORBITZAIR,ORBITZAIR.0.f36f1ea92513977249aa695112410052&amp;<em>sid</em> in" and then;</p> <p>"simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^ in,"</p> <p>and so forth for each line where there are these urls. </p> <p>I found a mention of SimpleXML not liking long attributes on php.net with no solution. I would rather just use and learn SimpleXML for now and work past this error if there is a non-janky, somewhat easy workaround. </p> <p>Does anyone have a solution? Thanks in advance!</p> <p>I tried entering the first 13 lines of the XML but it only outputs the info without the XML so.... I can do that if it will help. I'm not sure if using another parser/extension would reduce the functionality or ease of use but please feel free to suggest another if there's not workaround (DOM or XMLReader is what I'm thinking perhaps).</p> <p>EDITS BELOW TO INCLUDE LESS ADULTERATED ERROR OUTPUT:</p> <p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10206237/stack_overflow_xml.xml" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10206237/stack_overflow_xml.xml</a></p> <p>ERROR 1:</p> <pre><code>simplexml_load_string() [&lt;a href='function.simplexml-load-string'&gt;function.simplexml-load-string&lt;/a&gt;]: Entity: line 10: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' in </code></pre> <p>ERROR 2:(The XML I think is fine because it works with a Python script using DOM; I'm translating it to PHP because I don't know Python). I didn't know that the output in the browser would be different. Thanks for being patient.)</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href='function.simplexml-load-string'&gt;function.simplexml-load-string&lt;/a&gt;]: 38917408.Pt8rW8.0.F.ORBITZAIR,ORBITZAIR.0.f36f1ea92513977249aa695112410052&amp;amp;_sid_ in </code></pre> <p>ERROR 3:</p> <pre><code>function.simplexml-load-string&lt;/a&gt;]: ^ in </code></pre> <p>(all of those spaces are in there)</p>
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    1. COIt's not the "long" attribute, it's the '`&`' in the attribute. It's not a proper xml entity. All literal ampersands need to be encoded (ironically) as `&amp;` - the error states it's expecting ';' because it wants '`&sid`' to be an entity ie: '`&sid;`'.
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    2. COThe solution is to ask whoever generated that XML to fix their code and output some valid XML plzkthx.
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    3. COIn the actual file it says: " &amp;_sid_=15- The error was output by my browser. I clearly know nothing about encoding.
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