PHP xml parser is cutting urls inside node

Question

Why does parser is cutting url to this:

inside node:

http://img844.imageshack.us/content.php?page=done&l=img844/4783/php4dd.jpg

after parse:

[done_page] => l=img844/8828/php4e8.jpg

 private function _parse($result)
 {

  $XMLparser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8');



  xml_set_element_handler(
   $XMLparser,
   Array($this, 'startElement'),
   Array($this, 'endElement')
  );

  xml_set_character_data_handler($XMLparser, Array($this, 'stringElement'));






  if (!xml_parse($XMLparser, $result)) {

   echo '<br>XML Error: '.xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($XMLparser));
   echo ' at line '.xml_get_current_line_number($XMLparser);
   exit();

  }

  print_r($this->parsed_results);


  xml_parser_free($XMLparser);

 }

 public function stringElement($parser, $str)
 {

  if(strlen(trim($str)) > 0)
  {

   $this->parsed_results[$this->current_name] = $str;  

  }  

 }


 public function startElement($parser, $name, $attributes)
 {

  $this->current_name = $name;

 }


 public function endElement($parser, $name)
 {



 }

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><links>
    <image_link>http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8828/php4e8.jpg&lt;/image_link&gt;
    <thumb_link>http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8828/php4e8.th.jpg&lt;/thumb_link&gt;
    <ad_link>http://img844.imageshack.us/my.php?image=php4e8.jpg&lt;/ad_link&gt;
    <thumb_exists>yes</thumb_exists>
    <total_raters>0</total_raters>
    <ave_rating>0.0</ave_rating>

    <image_location>img844/8828/php4e8.jpg</image_location>
    <thumb_location>img844/8828/php4e8.th.jpg</thumb_location>
    <server>img844</server>
    <image_name>php4e8.jpg</image_name>
    <done_page>http://img844.imageshack.us/content.php?page=done&amp;amp;l=img844/8828/php4e8.jpg&lt;/done_page&gt;
    <resolution>468x458</resolution>

    <filesize>118347</filesize>
    <image_class>r</image_class>
</links>

Answer 1

The parser may have returned the text as two contiguous text nodes, resulting in stringElement being called twice. The second call would have overwritten the text from the first text node. Try changing stringElement so that it concatenates the input to any existing text and see if that returns the entire string.

On second examination, I'm pretty sure the parser returns the & entity reference as a separate node, so you may have to reassemble all the text yourself. Depending on the parser implementation, the entity reference may be a different kind of node, so you will have to research what your particular parser does with entity references.