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<h2 class="title">Dealing with XML errors</h2>
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Dealing with XML errors when loading documents is a very simple task.
Using the <a href="book.libxml.html" class="link">libxml</a> functionality it is
possible to suppress all XML errors when loading the document and then
iterate over the errors.
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The <a href="class.libxmlerror.html" class="classname">libXMLError</a> object, returned by
<span class="function"><a href="function.libxml-get-errors.html" class="function">libxml_get_errors()</a></span>, contains several properties
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<p><strong>Example #1 Loading broken XML string</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />libxml_use_internal_errors</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">simplexml_load_string</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"<?xml version='1.0'><broken><xml></broken>"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">=== </span><span style="color: #0000BB">false</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Failed loading XML\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> foreach(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">libxml_get_errors</span><span style="color: #007700">() as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$error</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\t"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$error</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">message</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> }<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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Failed loading XML
Blank needed here
parsing XML declaration: '?>' expected
Opening and ending tag mismatch: xml line 1 and broken
Premature end of data in tag broken line 1
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<h2 class="title">See Also</h2>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.libxml-use-internal-errors.html" class="function">libxml_use_internal_errors()</a></span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.libxml-get-errors.html" class="function">libxml_get_errors()</a></span></li>
<li class="member"><a href="class.libxmlerror.html" class="xref">libXMLError</a></li>
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