PHP - XML Parsing Functions

XML parsing is a PHP extension that allows us to easily manipulate and get XML data.

Installation

This extension enable by default. Default command line for disable at compile time is --disable-xml

Runtime Configuration

This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.

List of Functions

PHP − indicates the earliest version of PHP that supports the function.

Sr.No	Function & Description	PHP
1	sutf8_decode It is used to convert a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1	4
2	utf8_encode It used to encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8.	4
3	xml_error_string It used to get XML parser error string	5
4	xml_get_current_byte_index It used to get current byte index for an XML parser	4
5	xml_get_current_column_number It used to get current column number for an XML parser	4
6	xml_get_current_line_number It used to get current line number for an XML parser	4
7	xml_get_error_code It used to get xml parser error code	4
8	xml_parse_into_struct It used to parse any formatted xml into array structure	4
9	xml_parser_create_ns It used to create an XML parser with namespace support	4
10	xml_parser_create It used to create an XML parser	4
11	xml_parser_free It used to free an XML parser	4
12	xml_parser_get_option It used to get options from an XML parser	4
13	xml_parser_set_option It used to set options in an XML parser	4
14	xml_set_character_data_handler It used to set up character data handler	4
15	xml_set_default_handler It used to set up default handler	4
16	xml_set_element_handler It used to set up start and end element handlers	4
17	xml_set_end_namespace_decl_handler It used to set up end namespace declaration handler	4
18	xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler It used to set up external entity reference handler	4
19	xml_set_notation_decl_handler It used to set up notation declaration handler	4
20	xml_set_object It used to specifies XML Parser within an object	4
21	xml_set_processing_instruction_handler It used to set up processing instruction (PI) handler	4
22	xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler It used to set up start namespace declaration handler	4
23	xml_set_unparsed_entity_decl_handler It used to set up unparsed entity declaration handler	4

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