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xml_parse

Name

xml_parse — Parses XML data while firing events for the specified XML parser.

Synopsis

int xml_parse(parserID, xmldata[, endofdata]); resource parserID: Reference to a valid parser string xmldata: XML data to be parsed int endofdata (optional): Whether xmldata is the last input to be passed

Returns

TRUE on success; FALSE on failure

Description

xmldata can be parsed in chunks, but endofdata must be set to TRUE when the last chunk of data is parsed.

Version

PHP 3 >= 3.0.6, PHP 4 >= 4.0b1

Example

Example 1425. Parse an XML document

// an invalid 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))) {

            // 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)
              . "<BR />"
              . "Column: "
              . xml_get_current_column_number($xmlparser)
              . "<BR />");
      }
}
// free the parser memory
xml_parser_free($xmlparser);

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