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  <refentry id="function.xml-parser-create">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>xml_parser_create</refname>
    <refpurpose>Create an XML parser</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <methodsynopsis>
     <type>resource</type><methodname>xml_parser_create</methodname>
     <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>encoding</parameter></methodparam>
    </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>xml_parser_create</function> creates a new XML parser
     and returns a resource handle referencing it to be used by the
     other XML functions.
    </para>
    <para>
     The optional <parameter>encoding</parameter> specifies the character
     encoding for the input/output in PHP 4. Starting from PHP 5, the input
     encoding is automatically detected, so that the
     <parameter>encoding</parameter> parameter specifies only the output
     encoding. In PHP 4, the default output encoding is the same as the
     input charset. 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. In PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, the default output charset is
     ISO-8859-1, while in PHP 5.0.2 and upper is UTF-8. The supported
     encodings are <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>, <literal>UTF-8</literal> and
     <literal>US-ASCII</literal>.
    </para>
    <para>
     See also <function>xml_parser_create_ns</function> and
     <function>xml_parser_free</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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