DOMDocument::loadXML
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
DOMDocument::loadXML — Load XML from a string
Description
public DOMDocument::loadXML(string $source, int $options = 0): DOMDocument|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. If called statically, returns a DOMDocument 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.
Prior to PHP 8.0.0 this method could be called statically, but would issue an E_DEPRECATED
error. As of PHP 8.0.0 calling this method statically throws an Error exception
Examples
Example #1 Creating a Document
<?php $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadXML('<root><node/></root>'); echo $doc->saveXML(); ?>
Example #2 Static invocation of loadXML
<?php // Issues an E_DEPRECATED error $doc = DOMDocument::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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