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can you provide a small script as I cant reproduce the corruption you are getting

Here is a test script which demonstrates this bug:

<?php
//*****************************************************************************
// test script for bug #24934
//*****************************************************************************

// set up $fieldarray with test values
$fieldarray['field1'] = "C?te d'Ivoire";
$fieldarray['field2'] = "Cura?ao";
$fieldarray['field3'] = "Lis?rgida";

// create a new XML document
$doc = domxml_new_doc('1.0');
	
// create root node
$root = $doc->create_element('root');
$root = $doc->append_child($root);
	
// create record node
$occ = $doc->create_element('record');
$occ = $root->append_child($occ);
	
// insert each field as a child node
foreach ($fieldarray as $fieldname => $fieldvalue) {
	$child = $doc->create_element($fieldname);
	$child = $occ->append_child($child);
	$value = $doc->create_text_node($fieldvalue);
	$value = $child->append_child($value);
} // foreach
	
unset($fieldarray);

// get completed xml document
$xml_string = $doc->dump_mem(true);
unset($xml_doc);

// dump to a disk file with '.xml' extension
$fname = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) .'.xml' ;
$fp = fopen($fname, 'w');
$result = fwrite($fp, $xml_string);
fclose($fp);

exit;

?>

If you try to load the XML file into your browser you will see that it contains corrupt characters. For example where is should have '&#xF4;' for ? (letter o with circumflex) it has '&#x134960' instead. Basically the $doc->create_text_node() method is not translating special characters into the right hex code according to the HTML specification.

UTF-8 is the internal encoding for libxml when storing the document. You need to convert non UTF-8 encoded strings into UTF-8 when setting content. Also, for output to a browser you should be using html_dump_mem.

i.e.:
$value = $doc->create_text_node(mb_convert_encoding($fieldvalue,"UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1"));
and use either:
$xml_string = $doc->dump_mem(true, "ISO-8859-1");
or
$xml_string = $doc->html_dump_mem();
to output the document correctly