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PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss (via) Fixing some very funky behaviour in PHP’s XML parser.

Posted 26th June 2004 at 11:24 pm

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Useful patterns for building HTML tools - 10th December 2025
Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek - 9th December 2025
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