Anytime I try to extract the title of an article that has special characters, such as & or ', it's only returning the letters after the special characters. single quotes are displaying as ' (in xml) double quotes are displaying as " (in xml) ampersands are displaying as & amp ; (in xml) These 3 special characters are causing the title to output incorrectly, starting after the last instance of any of those special characters in the title line. So if I have: This & is "the title" now, only now will output as the title. I had a suggestion to use htmlspecialchars, but maybe I'm using it incorrectly. Code: <?php for($x=0;$x<count($document_array);$x++){ $newtitle = htmlspecialchars_decode($document_array[$x]->title, ENT_QUOTES); echo "\t" . $newtitle . "\n<br/>"; echo "<b>\t" . $document_array[$x]->title . "</b>\n<br/>"; $newdate = date('m/j/Y',strtotime($document_array[$x]->date)); echo "\t" . $newdate . " | " . $document_array[$x]->source . "\n<br/>"; echo "\t" . $document_array[$x]->ingress . "\n<br/><br/>"; } ?> Output of lines 4 and 5 are identical. I've tried htmlspecialchars and htmlspecialchars_decode. Both produce the same results, which is exactly what the title is showing in the XML element: amp;T June 7th (after htmlspecialchars) amp;T June 7th (before htmlspecialchars) <title>Metered Data Plans, Tethering Coming To AT&T June 7th</title> (the xml element) Metered Data Plans, Tethering Coming To AT&T June 7th (what I'm seeking to output)