Unless you want loads of weird characters displayed in a php document object it is very important to use encoding and decode the orginal string to be processed first when loading the org. string
eg this uses utf-8
$xml = new DOMDocument(); $xml->encoding = 'utf-8'; @$xml->loadHTML(utf8_decode($string));
Bye bye weird characters (doc objects in php tend to change the character codings, so this avoids the problem)
