DOMDocument->load()

Load XML from a file ()

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DOMDocument {
  mixed load(string filename,
             int options);
}

Loads an XML document from a file.

Parameters

filename: The path to the XML document.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. If called statically, returns a DOMDocument but also causes an E_STRICT warning.

Errors/Exceptions

If an empty string is passed as the filename or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error handling functions.

Examples

Example 521. Creating a Document

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<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('book.xml');

echo $doc->saveXML();
?>

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Code Examples / Notes » dom domdocument load

daevid

Suppose you wanted to dynamically load an array from an .XSD file. This method is your guy. just remember to use the actual xs: portion in xpaths and such. All the other "load" methods will error out. <?php $attributes = array(); $xsdstring = "/htdocs/api/xsd/common.xsd"; $XSDDOC = new DOMDocument(); $XSDDOC->preserveWhiteSpace = false; if ($XSDDOC->load($xsdstring)) { $xsdpath = new DOMXPath($XSDDOC); $attributeNodes = $xsdpath-> query('//xs:simpleType[@name="attributeType"]') ->item(0); foreach ($attributeNodes->childNodes as $attr) { $attributes[ $attr->getAttribute('value') ] = $attr->getAttribute('name'); } unset($xsdpath); } print_r($attributes); ?>

badguy

Note that this method uses the local file system before doing anything remote. The 'disadvantage' would be that if you would do the following: <?php $xml = new DOMDocument; $xml->load("xmlsource/news.php"); ?> This would not make the method read the actual output of the news.php file --presumably valid xml data--, but the file contents --obviously this would be php code. So this will return an error saying news.php is missing the xml declaration and maybe the xml start-tag What would work is the following: <?php $xml = new DOMDocument; $xml->load("http://my.beautiful-website.com/xmlsource/news.php"); ?> This will force a http request to be used to get this file instead of just locally reading it and the file just returning code

admin

In reply to BadGuy [at] BadGuy [dot] nl When the news.php file is located on the same server, like you said in the first example then http://my.beautiful-website.com/xmlsource/news.php wouldn't work, but you should use http://localhost/xmlsource/news.php or http://127.0.0.1/xmlsource/news.php

hh dot lohmann

BadGuyÂ´s note may be confusing since what he depicts is no special property of the relevant method. PHP works always in and on a local file system which means that if you want to use resources from other systems or - what is, indeed, BadGuyÂ´s problem - need resources that have been dealt with by other programs or processes, you have to state and manage that explicitly in your code. PHP is just a quite normal program in that. BadGuyÂ´s solution is using the "http wrapper" to get output from another process (see "wrappers" in the PHP manual). Doing this, the appropriate syntax for http calls has to be respected.

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