[thelist] FW: XML PHP Special Characters

[Mark Joslyn]

List,

I am parsing an XML document with PHP:

// Create an XML parser 
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); 

// Set the functions to handle opening and closing tags 
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement"); 

etc..

I have a special character inside the XML document (trademark symbol ™) that
is being parsed and what is returned is a question mark.

The XML document is encoded as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

The special character I am using is coded as: 

&#x2122; but I have used &#8482;

The php page is encoded:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Is there a way I can have this special character go through the parsing
process but still return a valid trademark symbol?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

markJ