PHP 5 libxml Functions

PHP libxml Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

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