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arandam

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that RSS feed isn't properly encoded, so simplexml_load_file is throwing a UTF-8 encoding error.  The errors I'm getting on that feed are either encoding related or CDATA related.

 

It seems your target feed is poorly formed.  Parse it by hand, or contact the publisher.  The apostrophe in "Genentech's" is not actually an apostrophe, that seems to be the issue.  I don't know why simplexml is failing on a CDATA field, but it is.

 

-Dan

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Use the string parsing functions to actually break it up by hand rather than trying a pre-build solution.  Preg_match_all can handle a well-formed RSS feed like this.  Or you could use strpos and substr to manually pull each tag into a variable.

 

It will be tedious, but if the XML is so weird that both XML parsing functions choke on it, it might be your only way.

 

-Dan

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