xml_parser_set_option

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

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.