How to check for errors in an XML

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How to check for errors in an XML

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I'm using the simplexml_load_string function to load a dynamic XML, but if there are formatting errors in this XML it only returns me false and I do not know where the error is, can I check this?

php simplexml-load-string simplexml

asked by anonymous 02.01.2014 / 14:21

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According to the php.net , if you load the

02.01.2014 / 14:29

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You can create a simple function to check if the XML is valid.

 <?php
function is_valid_xml ( $xml ) {
    libxml_use_internal_errors( true );

    $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');

    $doc->loadXML( $xml );

    $errors = libxml_get_errors();

    return empty( $errors );
}
?>