David,
I am creating my own XML files for import. All was working well until I upgraded my server to the most recent stable version of PHP/MySQL. After upgrading my XML feeds stopped load almost entirely. I chased the problem down to special characters. It seems that any character value over 128 decimal causes the feed import to abort.
I tried changing the database collation from latin1 to utf8, thinking it was likely a MySQL issue, but this did not resolve the problem. In desperation I put a filter in my data collection (store reader) script to make character replacements, but this is a total hack and I'd like to fix the actual problem.
What might I be missing?
Thanks,
David
David,
Well, that put me on the right track. When I changed the XML encoding on my feed generator from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1 I was able to get a clean load on PT.
Thanks!
David
Ahh...
It looks like you've run into the rare case of your installation of PHP having been compiled against a buggy version of libxml; in which the character set of an XML document is not automatically detected and therefore any extended characters cause the parser to stop.
Now; there is an easy way out if the character set of all the XML feeds you are working with is the same (for example utf-8 (most likely) or perhaps iso-8859-1). What you need to do is edit includes/MagicParser.php and use your text editor to change both instances of:
@xml_parser_create()to...
@xml_parser_create("UTF-8")(or the required character set)
Hopefully that should get you going...
Cheers,
David.