<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >xml_set_processing_instruction_handler</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_set_object" HREF="function.xml-set-object.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler" HREF="function.xml-set-start-namespace-decl-handler.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-set-object.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-set-start-namespace-decl-handler.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.xml-set-processing-instruction-handler" ></A >xml_set_processing_instruction_handler</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN96576" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 )</P >xml_set_processing_instruction_handler -- Set up processing instruction (PI) handler </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN96579" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >xml_set_processing_instruction_handler</B > ( resource parser, string handler)<BR ></BR ><P > Sets the processing instruction (PI) handler function for the XML parser <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >parser</I ></TT >. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >handler</I ></TT > is a string containing the name of a function that must exist when <A HREF="function.xml-parse.html" ><B CLASS="function" >xml_parse()</B ></A > is called for <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >parser</I ></TT >. </P ><P > A processing instruction has the following format: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN96596" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" ><? <TT CLASS="replaceable" ><I >target</I ></TT > <TT CLASS="replaceable" ><I >data</I ></TT >?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > You can put PHP code into such a tag, but be aware of one limitation: in an XML PI, the PI end tag (<TT CLASS="literal" >?></TT >) can not be quoted, so this character sequence should not appear in the PHP code you embed with PIs in XML documents. If it does, the rest of the PHP code, as well as the "real" PI end tag, will be treated as character data. </P ><P > The function named by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >handler</I ></TT > must accept three parameters: <B CLASS="methodname" ><TT CLASS="replaceable" ><I >handler</I ></TT ></B > ( resource parser, string target, string data)<BR ></BR > <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >parser</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The first parameter, <TT CLASS="replaceable" ><I >parser</I ></TT >, is a reference to the XML parser calling the handler. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >target</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The second parameter, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >target</I ></TT >, contains the PI target. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The third parameter, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT >, contains the PI data. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > </P ><P > If a handler function is set to an empty string, or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >, the handler in question is disabled. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > is returned if the handler is set up, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > if <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >parser</I ></TT > is not a parser. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B >Instead of a function name, an array containing an object reference and a method name can also be supplied.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></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-set-object.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-set-start-namespace-decl-handler.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >xml_set_object</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_set_start_namespace_decl_handler</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >