Php/docs/function.xml-parser-set-option

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xml_parser_set_option

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

xml_parser_set_option — Set options in an XML parser

Description

xml_parser_set_option ( XMLParser $parser , int $option , string|int $value ) : bool

Sets an option in an XML parser.

Parameters

parser

A reference to the XML parser to set an option in.

option

Which option to set. See below.

The following options are available:

XML parser options

Option constant	Data type	Description
XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING	integer	Controls whether case-folding is enabled for this XML parser. Enabled by default.
XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART	integer	Specify how many characters should be skipped in the beginning of a tag name.
XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE	integer	Whether to skip values consisting of whitespace characters.
XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING	string	Sets which target encoding to use in this XML parser.By default, it is set to the same as the source encoding used by xml_parser_create(). Supported target encodings are ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII and UTF-8.

value

The option's new value.

Return Values

This function returns FALSE if parser does not refer to a valid parser, or if the option could not be set. Else the option is set and TRUE is returned.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	parser expects an XMLParser instance now; previously, a resource was expected.