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How check if a String is a Valid XML with-out Displaying a Warning in PHP

i was trying to check the validity of a string as xml using the simplexml_load_string()Docs function but it displays a lot of warning messages.

How can I check whether a string is a valid XML without using @ at the beginning to suppress the errors and warnings?

Solution

  • Use libxml_use_internal_errors() to suppress all XML errors, and libxml_get_errors() to iterate over them afterwards.

    Simple XML loading string

    libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

$doc = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
$xml = explode("\n", $xmlstr);

if ($doc !== false) {
    $errors = libxml_get_errors();

    foreach ($errors as $error) {
        // Display the error how you want here
        print_r($error);
    }

    libxml_clear_errors();
}