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xml_parser_create

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

xml_parser_createСоздаёт XML-анализатор

Описание

xml_parser_create(?string $encoding = null): XMLParser

Функция xml_parser_create() создаёт новый XML-парсер и возвращает экземпляр класса XMLParser, который будут использовать другие XML-функции.

Список параметров

encoding

Кодировка входных данных определяется автоматически, поэтому параметр encoding задаёт кодировку только для выходных данных. Если передаётся пустая строка, анализатор пытается определить кодировку документа, просматривая первые 3 или 4 байта. Кодировка по умолчанию для выходных данных — UTF-8. Список поддерживаемых кодировок: ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 и US-ASCII.

Возвращаемые значения

Функция возвращает новый экземпляр класса XMLParser.

Список изменений

Версия Описание
8.0.0 Теперь функция возвращает экземпляр класса XMLParser; раньше функция возвращала ресурс (resource) или false, если возникла ошибка.
8.0.0 Параметр encoding теперь принимает значение null.

Смотрите также

  • xml_parser_create_ns() - Создание XML-анализатора с поддержкой пространств имён
  • xml_parser_free() - Освобождение XML-анализатора

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Примечания пользователей 5 notes

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marek995 at seznam dot cz
14 years ago
I created a function, which combines xml_paresr_create and all functions around.

<?php
function html_parse($file)
{
$array = str_split($file, 1);
$count = false;
$text = "";
$end = false;
foreach(
$array as $temp)
{
switch(
$temp)
{
case
"<":
between($text);
$text = "";
$count = true;
$end = false;
break;
case
">":
if(
$end == true) {end_tag($text);}
else {
start_tag($text);}
$text = "";
break;
case
"/":
if(
$count == true) {$end = true;}
else {
$text = $text . "/";}
break;
default:
$count = false;
$text = $text . $temp;
}
}
}
?>
The input value is a string.
It calls functions start_tag() , between() and end_tag() just like the original xml parser.

But it has a few differences:
- It does NOT check the code. Just resends values to that three functions, no matter, if they are right
- It works with parameters. For example: from tag <sth b="42"> sends sth b="42"
- It works wit diacritics. The original parser sometimes wrapped the text before the first diacritics appearance.
- Works with all encoding. If the input is UTF-8, the output will be UTF-8 too
- It works with strings. Not with file pointers.
- No "Reserved XML name" error
- No doctype needed
- It does not work with commentaries, notes, programming instructions etc. Just the tags

definition of the handling functions is:

<?php
function between($stuff) {}
?>

No other attributes
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2
jcalvert at gmx dot net
20 years ago
To maintain compatibility between PHP4 and PHP5 you should always pass a string argument to this function. PHP4 autodetects the format of the input if you leave it out whereas PHP5 will assume the format to be ISO-8859-1 (and choke on the byte order marker of UTF-8 files).

Calling the function as <?php $res = xml_parser_create('') ?> will cause both versions of PHP to autodetect the format.
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0
Tobbe
19 years ago
The above "XML to array" code does not work properly if you have several tags on the same level and with the same name, example:

<currenterrors>
<error>
<description>This is a real error...</description>
</error>
<error>
<description>This is a second error...</description>
</error>
<error>
<description>Lots of errors today...</description>
</error>
<error>
<description>This is the last error...</description>
</error>
</currenterrors>

It will then only display the first <error>-tag.
In this case you will need to number the tags automatically or maybe have several arrays for each new element.
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php at stock-consulting dot com
19 years ago
Even though I passed "UTF-8" as encoding type PHP (Version 4.3.3) did *not* treat the input file as UTF-8. The input file was missing the BOM header bytes (which may indeed be omitted, according to RFC3629...but things are a bit unclear there. The RFC seems to make mere recommendations concering the BOM header). If you want to sure that PHP treats an UTF-8 encoded file correctly, make sure that it begins with the corresponding 3 byte BOM header (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF)
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bishop at php dot net
5 years ago
Internals has proposed[1] changing this extension from resource-based to object-based. When this change is made, xml_parser_create will return an object, not a resource. Application developers are encouraged to replace any checks for explicit success, like:

<?php
$res
= xml_parser_create(/*...*/);
if (!
is_resource($res)) {
// ...
}
?>

With a check for explicit failure:
<?php
$res
= xml_parser_create(/*...*/);
if (
false === $res) {
// ...
}

[
1]: https://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=154998365013373&w=2
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