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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 of the XML input to be parsed. Supported
     encodings are <literal>"ISO-8859-1"</literal>, which is also
     the default if no <parameter>encoding</parameter> is specified,
     <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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