SimpleXML -- Strip CDATA Tags (or embed HTML markup in XML)

Question

I've just recently begun learning XML in the context of PHP and Javascript, and I've encountered a problem.

Here's the XML I'm using:

http://www.dkarndtcpa.net/new_site/faq.xml (I still can't figure out how to show the code in this little box here...)

So the issue is I want to put HTML markup within the XML, and then be able to extract this via PHP and embed the HTML in a different file that's reading the XML with SimpleXML. I'm echoing it with something along the lines of

echo $child->asXML();

However, of course the CDATA tags are still there and it doesn't work. So, my question is, is there either a way to A. embed HTML markup in a different way that is ignored by the XML parser but can be used in an HTML document, or B. a way to strip the CDATA tags from the code?

Answer 1

The CDATA tags should disappear if you use the nodeValue property instead of asXML().

Something like

echo $child->nodeValue;

should do the job.

Answer 2

Just had to reload the string in the XML parser, but excluding CDATA.

echo simplexml_load_string($child->asXML(), null, LIBXML_NOCDATA)

Don't mind me.