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core_xml_parser Class Reference

Class for parsing xml files. More...

Public Member Functions

 parse ($data, $whitespace=1, $encoding='UTF-8', $reporterrors=false)
 Parses XML string.
 

Detailed Description

Class for parsing xml files.

Handles functionality for:

Import of xml files in questionbank and course import. Can handle xml files larger than 10MB through chunking the input file. Uses a similar interface to the original version xmlize() by Hans Anderson.

@subpackage lib

License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later

Member Function Documentation

◆ parse()

core_xml_parser::parse ( $data,
$whitespace = 1,
$encoding = 'UTF-8',
$reporterrors = false )

Parses XML string.

Note: Interface is kept equal to previous version.

Author
Kilian Singer
Parameters
string$datathe XML source to parse.
int$whitespaceIf set to 1 allows the parser to skip "space" characters in xml document. Default is 1
string$encodingSpecify an OUTPUT encoding. If not specified, it defaults to UTF-8.
bool$reporterrorsif set to true, then a xml_format_exception exception will be thrown if the XML is not well-formed. Otherwise errors are ignored.
Return values
array|falserepresentation of the parsed XML.

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