XML_Unserializer is removing some important characters

[dt84]

Hello Everyone,

I'm using XML_Unserializer from the PEAR package to convert some XML to a php array. The XML is very basic:

<response status="SUCCESS">
<object>some character data</object>
</response>

The problem I'm facing is that if "some character data" contains &lt; or &gt; (for < and >), these characters are being removed from the result.

"some character data" is usually HTML so what it needs to do is convert the &lt; and &gt; back to < and > rather than delete them.

I've looked through the XML_Unserializer code but haven't been able to determine when the characters are deleted.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

David.