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<refentry xml:id="function.xml-parser-create" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>xml_parser_create</refname>
  <refpurpose>Create an XML parser</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>XMLParser</type><methodname>xml_parser_create</methodname>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>string</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>encoding</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   <function>xml_parser_create</function> creates a new XML parser
   and returns a <classname>XMLParser</classname> instance to be used by the
   other XML functions.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>encoding</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The input
       encoding is automatically detected, so that the
       <parameter>encoding</parameter> parameter specifies only the output
       encoding. If empty string is passed, the parser attempts to identify
       which encoding the document is encoded in by looking at the heading 3 or
       4 bytes. The default output charset is UTF-8. The supported
       encodings are <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>, <literal>UTF-8</literal> and
       <literal>US-ASCII</literal>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns a new <classname>XMLParser</classname> instance.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="changelog">
  &reftitle.changelog;
  <informaltable>
   <tgroup cols="2">
    <thead>
     <row>
      <entry>&Version;</entry>
      <entry>&Description;</entry>
     </row>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
     <row>
      <entry>8.0.0</entry>
      <entry>
      This function returns an <classname>XMLParser</classname> instance now;
      previously, a <type>resource</type> was returned, &return.falseforfailure;.
      </entry>
     </row>
     <row>
      <entry>8.0.0</entry>
      <entry>
       <parameter>encoding</parameter> is nullable now.       
      </entry>
     </row>
    </tbody>
   </tgroup>
  </informaltable>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>xml_parser_create_ns</function></member>
    <member><function>xml_parser_free</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>
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