I have an XHTML document being passed to a PHP app via Greasemonkey AJAX. The PHP app uses UTF8. If I output the POST content straight back to a textarea in the AJAX receiving div, everything is still properly encoded in UTF8.
When I try to parse using XPath
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($raw2);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$query = '//td/text()';
$nodes = $xpath->query($query);
foreach($nodes as $node) {
var_dump($node->wholeText);
}
dumped strings are not utf8. How do I force DOM/XPath to use UTF8?
If it is a fully fledged valid xhtml document you shouldn't use loadhtml() but load()/loadxml().
Given the example xhtml document
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>xhtml test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A Table</h1>
<table>
<tr><th>A</th><th>O</th><th>U</th></tr>
<tr><td>Ä</td><td>Ö</td><td>Ü</td></tr>
<tr><td>ä</td><td>ö</td><td>ü</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
the script
<?php
$raw2 = 'test.html';
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->load($raw2);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
var_dump($xpath->registerNamespace('h', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'));
$query = '//h:td/text()';
$nodes = $xpath->query($query);
foreach($nodes as $node) {
foo($node->wholeText);
}
function foo($s) {
for($i=0; $i<strlen($s); $i++) {
printf('%02X ', ord($s[$i]));
}
echo "\n";
}
prints
bool(true)
C3 84
C3 96
C3 9C
C3 A4
C3 B6
C3 BC
i.e. the output/strings are utf-8 encoded
I had the same problem and I couldn't use tidy in my webserver.
I found this solution and it worked fine:
$html = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
I have not tried, but the second parameter of DOMDocument::__construct
seems to be related to the encoding ; maybe that'll help you :-)
Else, there is an encoding property in DOMDocument, which is writable.
The DOMXpath beeing constructed with the DOMDocument as parameter, maybe it'll work...
A bit late in the game, but perhaps it helps someone...
The problem might be in the output, and not in the dom/xpath object itself.
If you would output the nodeValue directly, you would get corrupted characters e.g.:
ìÂÂì ë¹Â디ì¤
ìì ë¹ë””ì¤ í°ì íì¤
You have to load your dom object with the second param "utf-8", new \DomDocument('1.0', 'utf-8')
, but still when you print the dom node list/element value you get broken characters:
echo $contentItem->item($index)->nodeValue
you have to wrap it up with utf8_decode:
echo utf8_decode($contentItem->item($index)->nodeValue)
//output: 者不終朝而會,愚者可浹旬而學
Struggled with similar problem (unable to force Xpath to use UTF-8 in combination with loadHTML), in the end this excellent article provided the solution:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/8855
workaround:
Insert an additional section
with the appropriate Content-type
HTTP-EQUIV meta tag immediately
following the opening tag.