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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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