PHP Functions Essential Reference

xml_parse

int xml_parse(resource parserID, string xmldata, [int endofdata]) 

parserID	Reference to a valid parser
xmldata	XML data to be parsed
endofdata	Whether xmldata is the last input to be passed

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

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:

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, ...