PHP xml_error_string() Function

Definition and Usage

The xml_error_string() function retrieves the error description of the XML parser.

Syntax

xml_error_string(errorcode)
Parameter Description
errorcode Mandatory. Specifies the error code to be used. This error code is the return value of the xml_get_error_code() function.

Description

Returns with errorcode Returns a text description string corresponding to the error code parameter, if there is no corresponding description, it returns false.

Example

<?php
// Invalid xml file
$xmlfile = 'test.xml';
$xmlparser = xml_parser_create();
// open a file and read data
$fp = fopen($xmlfile, 'r');
while ($xmldata = fread($fp, 4096)) 
  {
  // parse the data chunk
  if (!xml_parse($xmlparser,$xmldata,feof($fp))) 
    {
    die( print "ERROR: "
    . xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xmlparser))
    . "<br />"
    . "Line: "
    . xml_get_current_line_number($xmlparser)
    . "<br />"
    . "Column: "
    . xml_get_current_column_number($xmlparser)
    . "<br />");
    }
  }
xml_parser_free($xmlparser);
?>

Output:

ERROR: Mismatched tag
Line: 8
Column: 51