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REST returns illegal XML
July 07, 2012, 07:18:59 am
The records are numbered, but an XML-element name must allways start with a letter so the resulting XML will not load into MSXML.DomDocumet and other tools...

  <Result>
    <20>
        <contact_id>20</contact_id>
        <contact_type>Individual</contact_type>


Is there an easy fix for prefixing these elements, eg. <20> could be changed to <num_20>?

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Re: REST returns illegal XML
July 07, 2012, 07:38:35 am

Can you tweak the code here:


CRM/Utils/Array.php, function xml

can you also file an issue and attach a patch if you have fixed the above. Please also include a link to the xml spec which says that an element name cannot be numeric

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Re: REST returns illegal XML
July 07, 2012, 08:12:04 am
Thx lobo.

The xml function looks OK... very generic, so patching here would involve something like "if (isnumeric ( $name ))...". Not pretty.

Aren't the numbers returned from the actual query... on a deeper level?

PS. I know a lot about .NET, but have decided to upgrade to PHP/Drupal, so I still have much to learn... :-)

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Re: REST returns illegal XML
July 07, 2012, 08:36:19 am

I think we need to do it at that level, since the underlying code returns nice associative arrays that are reused in other parts of the codebase

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