Pre-requisite: XML Basics
The xml_error_string() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which returns the XML parser error description for generated error code.
Syntax:
string xml_error_string( int $error_code)
Parameters: This function accepts single parameter $error_code which is required. It specifies an XML parser error code which is generated from the xml_get_error_code() function.
Return Values: This function returns the XML parser error description for specified error code generated from xml_get_error_code() on success and False on failure.
Note: This function is available for PHP 4.0.0 and newer version.
Below programs illustrate the xml_error_string() function in PHP:
gfg.xml file:
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><user> <username> user123 </username> <name> firstname lastname </name> <phone> +91-9876543210 </phone> <detail> I am John Doe. Live in Kolkata, India. </detail></users> |
Program 1:
PHP
<?php// Invalid XML file$xml_file= 'gfg.xml';// XML parser initialization$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); // Opening the file in read mode$file_pointer = fopen($xml_file, 'r'); // Reading data from the file streamwhile ($xml_data = fread($file_pointer, 4096)) { // Parsing the data chunk if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $xml_data, feof($file_pointer))) { // Display error die( print "ERROR: " . // Error string xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)) . "<br>Error Code: " . // Error code xml_get_error_code($xml_parser) . "<br>Line: " . // Line number where the error occurred xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser) . "<br>Column: " . // Column number where the error occurred xml_get_current_column_number($xml_parser) . "<br>Byte Index: " . // Byte index where the current byte occurred xml_get_current_byte_index($xml_parser) . "<br>" ); }}// Free to xml parserxml_parser_free($xml_parser);?> |
Output:
ERROR: Mismatched tag Error Code: 76 Line: 7 Column: 13 Byte Index: 208
neveropen.xml file:
XML
<?xml version="1.0 encoding="utf-8"?><user> <username> user123 </username> <name> firstname lastname </name> <phone> +91-9876543210 </phone> <detail> I am John Doe. Live in Kolkata, India. </detail></user> |
Program 2:
PHP
<?php// Invalid XML file$xml_file= 'neveropen.xml';// XML parser initialization$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); // Opening the file in read mode$file_pointer = fopen($xml_file, 'r'); // Reading data from the file streamwhile ($xml_data = fread($file_pointer, 4096)) { // Parsing the data chunk if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $xml_data, feof($file_pointer))) { // Display error die( print "ERROR: " . // Error string xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)) . "<br>Error Code: " . // Error code xml_get_error_code($xml_parser) . "<br>Line: " . // Line number where the error occurred xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser) . "<br>Column: " . // Column number where the error occurred xml_get_current_column_number($xml_parser) . "<br>Byte Index: " . // Byte index where the current byte occurred xml_get_current_byte_index($xml_parser) . "<br>" ); }}// Free to xml parserxml_parser_free($xml_parser);?> |
Output:
ERROR: String not closed expecting " or ' Error Code: 34 Line: 1 Column: 36 Byte Index: 37
Reference: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-error-string.php
