xml_parser_create
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8
xml_parser_create - Create an XML parser
Manual
xml_parser_create(
[string|null$encoding = null] ): XMLParser
xml_parser_create creates a new XML parser and returns a XMLParser instance to be used by the other XML functions.
Parameters
- encoding
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The input encoding is automatically detected, so that the encoding parameter specifies only the output encoding. If empty string is passed, the parser attempts to identify which encoding the document is encoded in by looking at the heading 3 or 4 bytes. The default output charset is UTF-8. The supported encodings are ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII.
Return Values
Returns a new XMLParser instance.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
| 8.0.0 | This function returns an XMLParser instance now; previously, a resource was returned, or false on failure. |
| 8.0.0 | encoding is nullable now. |