xml_parser_create Create an XML parser &reftitle.description; XMLParserxml_parser_create stringnullencoding&null; xml_parser_create creates a new XML parser and returns a XMLParser instance to be used by the other XML functions. &reftitle.parameters; encoding The input encoding is automatically detected, so that the encoding 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 ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns a new XMLParser instance. &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 8.0.0 This function returns an XMLParser instance now; previously, a resource was returned, &return.falseforfailure;. 8.0.0 encoding is nullable now. &reftitle.seealso; xml_parser_create_ns xml_parser_free