To prevent a parser error when the comment string would contain the character sequence "--", do this:
<?php
$CommentString = 'This contains -- some weird -- characters.';
$CommentNode = $DomDocument->createComment(
str_replace('--', '-'.chr(194).chr(173).'-', $CommentString)
);
?>
This will insert a Soft Hyphen in between the two hyphens which will not cause the parser to error out.
DOMDocument::createComment
(PHP 5, PHP 7)
DOMDocument::createComment — Create new comment node
Description
This function creates a new instance of class DOMComment. This node will not show up in the document unless it is inserted with (e.g.) DOMNode::appendChild().
Parameters
-
data -
The content of the comment.
Return Values
The new DOMComment or FALSE if an error occurred.
See Also
- DOMNode::appendChild() - Adds new child at the end of the children
- DOMDocument::createAttribute() - Create new attribute
- DOMDocument::createAttributeNS() - Create new attribute node with an associated namespace
- DOMDocument::createCDATASection() - Create new cdata node
- DOMDocument::createDocumentFragment() - Create new document fragment
- DOMDocument::createElement() - Create new element node
- DOMDocument::createElementNS() - Create new element node with an associated namespace
- DOMDocument::createEntityReference() - Create new entity reference node
- DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction() - Creates new PI node
- DOMDocument::createTextNode() - Create new text node
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php dot sirlancelot at spamgourmet dot com ¶
9 years ago
capps at solareclipse dot net ¶
12 years ago
Use caution: this function does NOT escape, encode, or otherwise change the contents of the string.
This means that if your string contains two hyphens in a row (--), that will *end* the comment, which can easily create invalid XML when the document is serialized.
