PHP34-PHP libxml Functions

PHP libxml Introduction The libxml functions and constants are used together with SimpleXML, XSLT and DOM functions. Installation T...

PHP libxml Introduction

The libxml functions and constants are used together with SimpleXML, XSLT and DOM functions.

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Installation

These functions require the libxml package. Download at xmlsoft.org

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PHP libxml Functions

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

Function	Description	PHP
libxml_clear_errors()	Clear libxml error buffer	5
libxml_get_errors()	Retrieve array of errors	5
libxml_get_last_error()	Retrieve last error from libxml	5
libxml_set_streams_context()	Set the streams context for the next libxml document load or write	5
libxml_use_internal_errors()	Disable libxml errors and allow user to fetch error information as needed	5

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PHP libxml Constants

Function	Description	PHP
LIBXML_COMPACT	Set small nodes allocation optimization. This may improve the application performance	5
LIBXML_DTDATTR	Set default DTD attributes	5
LIBXML_DTDLOAD	Load external subset	5
LIBXML_DTDVALID	Validate with the DTD	5
LIBXML_NOBLANKS	Remove blank nodes	5
LIBXML_NOCDATA	Set CDATA as text nodes	5
LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG	Change empty tags (e.g. <br/> to <br></br>), only available in the DOMDocument->save() and DOMDocument->saveXML() functions	5
LIBXML_NOENT	Substitute entities	5
LIBXML_NOERROR	Do not show error reports	5
LIBXML_NONET	Stop network access while loading documents	5
LIBXML_NOWARNING	Do not show warning reports	5
LIBXML_NOXMLDECL	Drop the XML declaration when saving a document	5
LIBXML_NSCLEAN	Remove excess namespace declarations	5
LIBXML_XINCLUDE	Use XInclude substitution	5
LIBXML_ERR_ERROR	Get recoverable errors	5
LIBXML_ERR_FATAL	Get fatal errors	5
LIBXML_ERR_NONE	Get no errors	5
LIBXML_ERR_WARNING	Get simple warnings	5
LIBXML_VERSION	Get libxml version (e.g. 20605 or 20617)	5
LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION	Get dotted libxml version (e.g. 2.6.5 or 2.6.17)	5