', '
]]>');

// use the ever-so-handy php replace string function to replace
// every instance of a mangled CDATA opening and closing tag with a corrected version
$xmlcdRep = str_replace($oldChars, $newChars, $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);

// use html entity encode to fix the remaining garbled html tags
$xmlString = html_entity_decode($xmlcdRep);


// hopefully by here - the mangled tags will be properly reformatted and
// the xml can saved back to the server correctly
// the only thing i don't know how to do is to preserve the visual
// spacing structure so if you open the xml in dreamweaver or text
// editor, it still retains it's original well laid out form.
if(!fwrite($file, $xmlString)){
print "Error writing to XML-file";
}else{
print "XML File Saved";
}
fclose($file);
?>