DOMDocument::load
(PHP 5)
DOMDocument::load — Load XML from a file
Description
Loads an XML document from a file.
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Parameters
- filename
-
The path to the XML document.
- options
-
Bitwise OR of the libxml option constants.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. If called statically, returns a DOMDocument or FALSE on failure.
Errors/Exceptions
If an empty string is passed as the filename or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error handling functions.
This method may be called statically, but will issue an E_STRICT error.
Examples
Example #1 Creating a Document
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>
See Also
- DOMDocument::loadXML() - Load XML from a string
- DOMDocument::save() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file
- DOMDocument::saveXML() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string