html in CDATA problem

[hiksa]

hi,

I have the following xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<homePageContent>
 
<content>
<![CDATA[
<h2>Main Content</h2>
<p>some paragraph here</p>
<p>another paragraph here</p>
]]>
</content>
 
</homePageContent>

and I'm using this to edit the xml:

function setHomePageContent($newContent, $xmlFile) {
	$xml = new DomDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
	$xml->load($xmlFile);
	$root = $xml->documentElement;
	$children = $root->childNodes;
	foreach ($children as $element) {
		if ($element->nodeType == XML_ELEMENT_NODE && $element->nodeName == 'content') {
			$element->nodeValue = '<![CDATA[ ' . $newContent . ' ]]>';
		}
	}
	if ($xml->save($xmlFile)) { 	
		return true;
	}
}

but the special characters like "<" are presented like &lt; in my updated xml.
I don't need this, I need my "<" character. Can anyone help me with this?

10x

[Daniel0]

Running the string through html_entity_decode() should do the trick.

[hiksa]

Running the string through html_entity_decode() should do the trick.

Daniel0, 10x for replying me

Sorry, but don't work properly. I've save the $newContent to ".txt" files before and after html_entity_decode(), something like this:

function setHomePageContent($newContent, $xmlFile) {
    $xml = new DomDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
    $xml->load($xmlFile);
    $root = $xml->documentElement;
    $children = $root->childNodes;
    foreach ($children as $element) {
        if ($element->nodeType == XML_ELEMENT_NODE && $element->nodeName == 'content') {
 
        	$fp = fopen('test.txt', w);
			fwrite($fp, $newContent);
			fclose($fp);
 
        	$tmpContent = html_entity_decode($newContent);
 
			$fp = fopen('test2.txt', w);
			fwrite($fp, $tmpContent);
			fclose($fp);
 
            $element->nodeValue = "\n" . '<![CDATA[ ' . $tmpContent . ' ]]>' . "\n";
        }
    }
    if ($xml->save($xmlFile)) {
        return true;
    }
}

but the content of "test.txt" and "test2.txt" matches exactly. I mean there is no &lt; characters in my variable before put it in my xml.
any other ideas ?

10x