Load XML from a string

# DOMDocument::loadXML

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMDocument::loadXML — Load XML from a string

### Description

public DOMDocument::loadXML(string `$source`, int `$options` = 0): bool

Loads an XML document from a string.

### Parameters

`source`

  The string containing the XML.

`options`

  Bitwise `OR` of the libxml option constants.

### Return Values

Returns `true` on success or `false` on failure.

### Errors/Exceptions

If an empty string is passed as the `source`, a warning will be generated. This warning is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error handling functions.

### Changelog

Version | Description
--- | ---
8.3.0 | This function now has a tentative bool return type.
8.0.0 | Calling this function statically will now throw an Error. Previously, an `E_DEPRECATED` was raised.

### Examples

Example #1 Creating a Document

`<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML('<root><node/></root>');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>`

### See Also

- DOMDocument::load() - Load XML from a file
- DOMDocument::save() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file
- DOMDocument::saveXML() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string

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