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<h1 class="refname">xml_parser_create_ns</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">xml_parser_create_ns</span> — <span class="dc-title">Create an XML parser with namespace support</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>xml_parser_create_ns</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$encoding</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$separator</code><span class="initializer"> = ":"</span></span>
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<span class="function"><strong>xml_parser_create_ns()</strong></span> creates a new XML parser
with XML namespace support and returns a resource handle referencing
it to be used by the other XML functions.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<code class="parameter">encoding</code></dt>
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The input encoding is automatically detected, so that the
<code class="parameter">encoding</code> parameter specifies only the output
encoding. In PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, the default output charset is
ISO-8859-1, while in PHP 5.0.2 and upper is UTF-8. The supported
encodings are <em>ISO-8859-1</em>, <em>UTF-8</em> and
<em>US-ASCII</em>.
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<code class="parameter">separator</code></dt>
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With a namespace aware parser tag parameters passed to the various
handler functions will consist of namespace and tag name separated by
the string specified in <code class="parameter">separator</code>.
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Returns a resource handle for the new XML parser.
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<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.xml-parser-create.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">xml_parser_create()</a> - Create an XML parser</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.xml-parser-free.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">xml_parser_free()</a> - Free an XML parser</span></li>
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