xml_get_current_byte_index

Example 1421. Get the XML parser byte index

// a valid XML document
$xmlfile = 'myxmlfile.xml';

$xmlparser = xml_parser_create();

// open a file and read data from it for parsing
$fp = fopen($xmlfile, 'r');
while ($xmldata = fread($fp, 4096)) {

    // parse the data chunk
      if (xml_parse($xmlparser, $xmldata, feof($fp))) {
        
            // print the current byte index of the parser
            print "The current byte index is: "
         . xml_get_current_byte_index($xmlparser) . "<BR />";
    
      }
   else {

            // if parsing fails print the error description and line number
            die(print "ERROR: "
             . xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xmlparser))
             . "<BR />"
                                  . "Line: "
             . xml_get_current_line_number($xmlparser)); 
      }
}
// free the parser memory
xml_parser_free($xmlparser);