PHPWord bracket causes rendered Word document to be un-openable

Question

Using PHPWord, I've managed with this line:

$section->addText('<');

to provoke an Error in Microsoft Word opening the .docx file:

+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Microsoft Office Word                                     ? X |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| The file BrynergyTest.docx cannot be opened because there are |
| problems with the contents.                                   |
|                                        [ OK ] [ Details >>> ] |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

Other symbols, such as:

$section->addText('t');

work fine.

I expected the result to have the Word XML file with the contents of the less-than-sign "<" (U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN).

Cymro · Accepted Answer · 2025-02-03 13:01:23Z

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I found this answer:

\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setOutputEscapingEnabled(true);

answered Feb 3 at 13:01

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4 Comments

Piemol Feb 3 at 13:15

As per documentation: "Writing documents of some formats, especially XML-based, requires correct output escaping. Without it your document may become broken when you put special characters like ampersand, quotes, and others in it." phpword.readthedocs.io/en/latest/general.html#output-escaping

TylerH Feb 3 at 14:14

"I found this answer" Where?

Cymro Feb 3 at 15:44

TylerH: github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/issues/2553

hakre Feb 3 at 23:14

@Cymro: Please edit that into your answer.

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