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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] xml ext and &amp; entities
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi!

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was running PHP tests on my freshly installed CentOS instance and I
> noticed that two XML tests were failing: ext/xml/tests/bug35447.phpt and
> ext/xml/tests/xml011.phpt. Looks like for some reason XML parser when
> parsing something like this: This &amp; that - produces empty string
> instead of "&" when parsing &amp;.
> Any idea why it could be happening? libxml2 is of version 2.7.8 and in
> general it's standard CentOS 6.3, 64-bit.  Does not reproduce on Mac
> with same PHP and same libxml2 version.

Can you try using a stock version of libxml or using the latest version?

I met some issues in the past on Centos because of bad patches applied
to libxml.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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