PHP xml_error_string() Function

Example

On error, return the XML parser error description, line number and column number:

<?php
// Invalid xml file
$xmlfile = 'test.xml';
$xmlparser = xml_parser_create();

// Open the file and read data
$fp = fopen($xmlfile, 'r');
while ($xmldata = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  // parse the data chunk
  if (!xml_parse($xmlparser,$xmldata,feof($fp))) {
    die( print "ERROR: "
    . xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xmlparser))
    . "<br>Line: "
    . xml_get_current_line_number($xmlparser)
    . "<br>Column: "
    . xml_get_current_column_number($xmlparser)
    . "<br>");
  }
}
xml_parser_free($xmlparser);
?>

The output of the code above could be:

ERROR: Mismatched tag
Line: 5
Column: 41

Definition and Usage

The xml_error_string() function returns the XML parser error description.

Syntax

xml_error_string(code)

Parameter Values

Parameter	Description
code	Required. Specifies an error code from the xml_get_error_code() function

Technical Details

Return Value:	The error description on success. FALSE on failure
PHP Version:	4.0+

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