<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >xml_parser_create</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="XML parser functions" HREF="ref.xml.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="xml_parser_create_ns" HREF="function.xml-parser-create-ns.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="xml_parser_free" HREF="function.xml-parser-free.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.xml-parser-create-ns.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.xml-parser-free.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.xml-parser-create" ></A >xml_parser_create</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN96024" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 )</P >xml_parser_create -- create an XML parser</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN96027" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >xml_parser_create</B > ( [string encoding])<BR ></BR ><P > <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >encoding</I ></TT > (optional)</DT ><DD ><P > Which character encoding the parser should use. The following character encodings are supported: <P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="literal" >ISO-8859-1</TT > (default)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="literal" >US-ASCII</TT ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="literal" >UTF-8</TT ></TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P > </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > This function creates an XML parser and returns a handle for use by other XML functions. Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.xml-parser-create-ns.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.xml-parser-free.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >xml_parser_create_ns</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.xml.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >xml_parser_free</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >