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    <p>I'm using the google weather api for a widget.</p> <p>All is fine and dandy except that today I encountered a problem that I cannot solve. When called with this location:</p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=dunjkovec,medimurska,croatia&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=dunjkovec,medimurska,croatia&amp;hl=en</a></p> <p>I get this error:</p> <pre><code>XML parse error 9 'Invalid character' at line 1, column 169 (byte index 199) </code></pre> <p>I suspect that the problem is here: Nedelišće</p> <p>The code block is this one:</p> <pre><code>$parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); $ok = xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $values); if (!$ok) { $errmsg = sprintf("XML parse error %d '%s' at line %d, column %d (byte index %d)", xml_get_error_code($parser), xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($parser), xml_get_current_column_number($parser), xml_get_current_byte_index($parser)); } </code></pre> <p>$data is the content of the xml and $values is empty.</p> <p>Can someone help me? Thank you very much!</p> <p>EDIT----------------------------------</p> <p>After reading Hussein's post I discovered that the problem is in the way the file gets retrieved.</p> <p>I tried file_get_contents and cURL. Both returns:</p> <p> that is the line that creates problems. Or so I thought! I tried this html_entity_decode($data,ENT_NOQUOTES,'UTF-8') and it wasn't working, so I made a discover, I can't echo the contents of the xml, I can only print_r them and see the results in the html source! With any other location in the world it works, only this one creates problems... I wanna cry :-(</p> <p>EDIT 2--------------------------------</p> <p>For anybody that cares. I fixed the problem with this lines of code after retrieving the xml file from the api:</p> <pre><code>$data = mb_convert_encoding($data, 'UTF-8', mb_detect_encoding($data, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true)); $data = html_entity_decode($data,ENT_NOQUOTES,'UTF-8'); </code></pre> <p>then parse the xml, it works like a charm. I marked hussein's answer because it got me on the right track.</p>
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    1. COWhat's your PHP version?
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    2. COPHP version may well be an issue with encoding. Google correctly identifies the XML as UTF-8 in the header, but not in the XML declaration. How are you retrieving and storing the XML prior to loading it? Depending on environment set up I suppose it's possible it's been implicitly converted to ISO-8859-1 at some point, which would cause the invalid character error when it's loaded.
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    3. COCongrats! That's Even better solution.. Thanks for sharing :)
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