Problem with HTML entities output

Ok – system converted last example – of course… ??

I can get <Supplier-Catalog timestamp=”28-11-2019 12:31:25″>

Damn… ‘AND-SIGNlt;Supplier-Catalog timestamp=”28-11-2019 12:31:25″>’

Hi @elkurczako,

I believe what you need is:

AND-SIGNlt;Supplier-Catalog timestamp="[alg_current_datetime datetime_format='d-m-Y H:i:s']">

AND-SIGN in the snippet above should be replaced with &

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Algoritmika.

The problem is, that with < I get output:
& lt;Supplier-Catalog timestamp="28-11-2019 23:24:57">

and yes I know, there should be no space between & and lt; – www.ads-software.com forum forms just changes HTML entities to characters. And my WordPress doesn’t.

@elkurczako,

I’ve just checked and you are correct, < is not converted in resulting XML file, however, it seems that file is still parsed normally, e.g. if you open it in your browser it shows “normal” XML structure.

Hi @elkurczako,

I was thinking – if you need HTML entities converted to characters in XML file – there is a solution. All plugin’s shortcodes have custom_function attribute available, so if you add this to your (child) theme’s functions.php file:

if ( ! function_exists( 'my_alg_wc_xml_wrap_supplier_catalog' ) ) {
    /**
     * my_alg_wc_xml_wrap_supplier_catalog.
     */
    function my_alg_wc_xml_wrap_supplier_catalog( $result ) {
        return '<Supplier-Catalog timestamp="' . $result . '"/>';
    }
}

then you can just add this to your XML “Template” option:

[alg_current_datetime datetime_format="d-m-Y H:i:s" custom_function="my_alg_wc_xml_wrap_supplier_catalog"]

P.S. Also I think you need to have / symbol for closing tag at the end, i.e.:

<Supplier-Catalog timestamp="29-11-2019 13:17:23"/>

and not:

<Supplier-Catalog timestamp="29-11-2019 13:17:23">

Hope that helps.

That did the trick!
Thank you very much for your time and effort. Great support!

Closing – resolved.

@elkurczako,

Great, happy to hear it’s solved!

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