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PHP DOMDocument does not keep numeric presentation of HTML special characters

I have a DOMDocument and would like to append some nodes.

In one of the nodes, I would like to put:

$copyrightStatementText = "© This is the CopyRight";

The problem is that the function:

$copyrightStatement = $dom_output->createElement('copyright-statement', $copyrightStatementText);

Is converting the © immediately to ©.

My goal is to keep the ©

Any idea how could I do that?

Solution

  • From DOMDocument::createElement():

    Note: The value will not be escaped. Use DOMDocument::createTextNode() to create a text node with escaping support.

    So use DOMDocument::createTextNode() instead:

    $copyrightString = "© This is the Copyright";
$copyrightNode = $dom_output->createTextNode($copyrightString);
$copyrightContainer = $dom_output->createElement('copyright-statement');

$copyrightContainer->appendChild($copyrightNode);