php man page for xml_parser_create

XML_PARSER_CREATE(3)							 1						      XML_PARSER_CREATE(3)

xml_parser_create - Create an XML parser

SYNOPSIS
       resource xml_parser_create ([string  $encoding])

DESCRIPTION
       xml_parser_create(3) creates a new XML parser and returns a resource handle referencing it to be used by the other XML functions.

PARAMETERS
	      o $encoding
		-  The	optional $encoding specifies the character encoding for the input/output in PHP 4. Starting from PHP 5, the input encoding
		is automatically detected, so that the $encoding parameter specifies only the output encoding. In PHP 4, the default output encod-
		ing  is  the  same as the input charset. If empty string is passed, the parser attempts to identify which encoding the document is
		encoded in by looking at the heading 3 or 4 bytes. In PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, the default output charset is ISO-8859-1, while in  PHP
		5.0.2 and upper is UTF-8. The supported encodings are ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII.

RETURN VALUES
	Returns a resource handle for the new XML parser.

SEE ALSO
       xml_parser_create_ns(3), xml_parser_free(3).

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