PHP Tutorial - PHP xml_error_string() Function






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

Syntax

PHP xml_error_string() Function has the following syntax.

xml_error_string(errorcode)

Parameter

ParameterIs RequiredDescription
errorcodeRequired.Error code to use. The error code is the return value from the xml_get_error_code() function

Return

This function returns the error description on success, or FALSE on failure.

Example

Gets the XML parser error description

Content for test.xml

<data>
   <missEndTag>
</data>


<?php//w  w  w  .  j  a v a 2  s  .  c o m

$xmlparser = xml_parser_create();

$fp = fopen('test.xml', 'r');

while ($xmldata = fread($fp, 1024)){
  if (!xml_parse($xmlparser,$xmldata,feof($fp))){
    print "ERROR: ";
    print xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xmlparser));
    print "\n";
    print "Line: ";
    print xml_get_current_line_number($xmlparser);
    print "\n";
    print "Column: ";
    print xml_get_current_column_number($xmlparser);
    print  "\n";
  }
}

xml_parser_free($xmlparser);
?>