If you use an appropriate class or library, they will do the escaping for you. Many XML issues are caused by string concatenation. XML escape characters There are only five: ” " ‘ ' < < > > & & Escaping characters depends on where the special character is used. The examples can be validated … Read more
I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed — the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines. First build an Element instance root from … Read more
CDATA stands for Character Data and it means that the data in between these strings includes data that could be interpreted as XML markup, but should not be. The key differences between CDATA and comments are: As Richard points out, CDATA is still part of the document, while a comment is not. In CDATA you … Read more
Native XML Extensions I prefer using one of the native XML extensions since they come bundled with PHP, are usually faster than all the 3rd party libs and give me all the control I need over the markup. DOM The DOM extension allows you to operate on XML documents through the DOM API with PHP … Read more