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Decode HTML Entities found in XML

Demonstrates how to decode HTML entities found in XML.

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<?php

$success = 0;

// Load an XML file containing the following:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
// <output>Franz&#xf6;sische</output> 

$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$success = $xml->LoadXmlFile('qa_data/xml/hasHtmlEntity.xml');

// Get non-decoded content, then get decoded content.

// Result is Franz&#xf6;sische
print $xml->Content . "\n";

// Result is Französische
$strDecoded = $xml->decodeEntities($xml->Content);
print $strDecoded . "\n";

?>