TYPO3 Core

appearently there was no change on this file and the problem exists in both beta versions. have to check this.

just rechecked it, cannot reproduce this anymore... Ingmar, it first occured in your install, is it still there?

For your information:

On the system I'm encountering the problem with, I detected the following misbehaviour of the function pair xml2array() and array2xml():

debug(t3lib_div::xml2array(t3lib_div::array2xml(array('this is <B>big</B>'))));
...results in "this is Bbig/B" instead of "this is <B>big</B>" which it should have been.

The problem can be tracked down to somewhere in t3lib_div::xml2array(). The function does not seem to care about entities (i.e. it strips out all entities).

The server is a WAMP system using latest apachefriends.org XAMPP package with PHP5.

I consider an error inside of xml2array() as a major bug, because it affects all entities in all XML locallang files in TYPO3 as well as entities in Flexform data and datastructures.

I'm sorry I was not yet able to fix the bug - and might not be able to do so before scheduled release of 3.8.0.

Anybody could reproduce this with the XAMPP package mentioned above.

I'm running WinXP Pro, ApacheFriends XAMPP (basic package) version 1.4.13 with:
+ Apache 2.0.53
+ MySQL 4.1.11
+ PHP 5.0.4 + PHP 4.3.11 + PEAR
+ eAccelerator 0.9.2a
+ PHP-Switch win32 1.0 (von Apachefriends, man nehme die "php-switch.bat")

Typo3 3.8RC1 Help->About is looking fine, both with PHP5 and PHP4.

Thanks, Pieterv, for testing this!

You are indeed right, it works with PHP 5.0.4.

The PHP5 ChangeLog http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php mentions, that the bug ("XML Parser Functions seem to drop & when parsing") is fixed in PHP 5.0.4.

More info about the PHP bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31139