domxml_open_mem

Creates a DOM object of an XML document (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)
DomDocument domxml_open_mem ( string str [, int mode [, array &error]] )

The function parses the XML document in the given string.

Parameters

str

The contents of the XML file.

mode

This optional parameter can be used to change the behavior of this function.

You can use one of the following constants for it: DOMXML_LOAD_PARSING (default), DOMXML_LOAD_VALIDATING or DOMXML_LOAD_RECOVERING. You can add to it also DOMXML_LOAD_DONT_KEEP_BLANKS, DOMXML_LOAD_SUBSTITUTE_ENTITIES and DOMXML_LOAD_COMPLETE_ATTRS by bitwise or.

error

If used, it will contain the error messages. error must be passed in by reference.

Return Values

Returns a DomDocument instance of the given XML contents.

ChangeLog

Version	Description
4.3.0	The `mode` and `error` parameters were added.

Examples

Example 577. Opening an XML document in a string

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<?php
include("example.inc");


if (!$dom = domxml_open_mem($xmlstr)) {

  echo "Error while parsing the document\n";

  exit;

}

$root = $dom->document_element();
?>

See Also

domxml_open_file()

domxml_new_doc()

lian yuen chi

Regarding the 'magic_quotes_runtime = On' issue in XML parsing, I will suggest using the method below, for those who do not want to turn off the setting in the configuration file. <?php $original-magic-quotes-runtime-value = get_magic_quotes_runtime(); set_magic_quotes_runtime(0); your-xml-parsing-codes(); set_magic_quotes_runtime($original-magic-quotes-runtime-value); ?>

msh

It's always nice to see just where in the XML the error is so I've enhanced the error message example above to this: // Read and parse dynamic PHP/XML document. ob_start(); require($_REQUEST['page'].'.php'); $xml = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); $xmldoc = domxml_open_mem("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>".$xml, DOMXML_LOAD_PARSING, $error); // Show error. if(!$xmldoc) { // Assign each line to array. $arXML = explode("\n", $xml); echo "<pre>"; foreach ($error as $errorline) { echo $errorline['errormessage']. "Node: ".$errorline['nodename']."\n". "Line: ".$errorline['line']."\n". "Column: ".$errorline['col']."\n"; // Locate actual line number. $arErrorMessage = explode(' line ', $errorline['errormessage']); $arErrorMessage = explode(' ', $arErrorMessage[1]); $errorLineNumber = $arErrorMessage[0]; // Show +/- 10 lines around error. $minErrorLineNumber = max(0, $errorLineNumber-10); $maxErrorLineNumber = min(sizeof($arXML), $errorLineNumber+10); echo "XML snip (linies: ".$minErrorLineNumber." to ".$maxErrorLineNumber."):\n"; for($n = $minErrorLineNumber; $n < $maxErrorLineNumber; $n++) if($n == $errorLineNumber) echo "<B>".htmlentities($arXML[$n])."</B>\n"; else echo htmlentities($arXML[$n])."\n"; echo "\n\n"; } echo "</pre>"; } This will actually render +/- 10 lines around the actual error. Hope others will find this usefull aswell.

chris

Finally figured out the error handling. The sample below will give a nice error message. Should also work for domxml_open_file. <? # Small sample xml file with 2 errors # 1. root tag not closed # 2. Missing ; in & $xml = "<root>&amp"; $xmldoc = @domxml_open_mem($xml,DOMXML_LOAD_PARSING,$error); echo "<pre>"; # Just for nice layout foreach ($error as $errorline) { # Loop through all errors echo $errorline['errormessage']; echo " Node : " . $errorline['nodename'] . "\n"; echo " Line : " . $errorline['line'] . "\n"; echo " Column : " . $errorline['col'] . "\n\n"; } ?>

heiko dot weber

Careful, this function will not work with XML documents which are in UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoding and include a BOM at the beginning, so your code will need a special handling for these encodings.

ardent

Although undocumented, domxml_open_mem does not exist in PHP5. See this site for a quick fix: http://alexandre.alapetite.net/doc-alex/domxml-php4-php5/index.en.html

carl wurtz

A recursive function that parses XML into objects: <?php $xmlstg = '<?xml version="1.0"?'; $xmlstg .= '><candy><anatomically_shaped><head_to_bite_off>chocolate bunnies</head_to_bite_off><headless>gummi worms</headless></anatomically_shaped></candy>'; $dom = domxml_open_mem($xmlstg); $root = $dom->document_element(); $root->name = '$candy'; function parse_node($node) { global $candy; if ($node->has_child_nodes()) { foreach($node->child_nodes() as $n) { if ($n->node_name() == '#text') { eval("$node->name=\"" . $n->node_value() . "\";"); } else { $n->name = $node->name . '->' . $n->node_name(); parse_node($n); } } } } parse_node($root); echo $candy->anatomically_shaped->head_to_bite_off; // echos "chocolate bunnies" ?>

domxml_open_mem

Creates a DOM object of an XML document (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)
DomDocument domxml_open_mem ( string str [, int mode [, array &error]] )

Parameters

Return Values

ChangeLog

Examples

Example 577. Opening an XML document in a string

Code Examples / Notes » domxml_open_mem

Change Language

domxml_open_mem

Creates a DOM object of an XML document (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0) DomDocument domxml_open_mem ( string str [, int mode [, array &error]] )

Parameters

Return Values

ChangeLog

Examples

Example 577. Opening an XML document in a string

Code Examples / Notes » domxml_open_mem

Change Language

Creates a DOM object of an XML document (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)
DomDocument domxml_open_mem ( string str [, int mode [, array &error]] )