The XMLReader class

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

The XMLReader extension is an XML Pull parser. The reader acts as a cursor going forward on the document stream and stopping at each node on the way.

Class synopsis

class XMLReader {

/* Constants */

public const int NONE;

public const int ELEMENT;

public const int ATTRIBUTE;

public const int TEXT;

public const int CDATA;

public const int ENTITY_REF;

public const int ENTITY;

public const int PI;

public const int COMMENT;

public const int DOC;

public const int DOC_TYPE;

public const int DOC_FRAGMENT;

public const int NOTATION;

public const int WHITESPACE;

public const int SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE;

public const int END_ELEMENT;

public const int END_ENTITY;

public const int XML_DECLARATION;

public const int LOADDTD;

public const int DEFAULTATTRS;

public const int VALIDATE;

public const int SUBST_ENTITIES;

/* Properties */

public int $attributeCount;

public string $baseURI;

public int $depth;

public bool $hasAttributes;

public bool $hasValue;

public bool $isDefault;

public bool $isEmptyElement;

public string $localName;

public string $name;

public string $namespaceURI;

public int $nodeType;

public string $prefix;

public string $value;

public string $xmlLang;

/* Methods */

public close(): true

public expand(?DOMNode $baseNode = null): DOMNode|false

public static fromStream(
    resource $stream,
    ?string $encoding = null,
    int $flags = 0,
    ?string $documentUri = null
): static

public static fromString(string $source, ?string $encoding = null, int $flags = 0): static

public static fromUri(string $uri, ?string $encoding = null, int $flags = 0): static

public getAttribute(string $name): ?string

public getAttributeNo(int $index): ?string

public getAttributeNs(string $name, string $namespace): ?string

public getParserProperty(int $property): bool

public isValid(): bool

public lookupNamespace(string $prefix): ?string

public moveToAttribute(string $name): bool

public moveToAttributeNo(int $index): bool

public moveToAttributeNs(string $name, string $namespace): bool

public moveToElement(): bool

public moveToFirstAttribute(): bool

public moveToNextAttribute(): bool

public next(?string $name = null): bool

public static open(string $uri, ?string $encoding = null, int $flags = 0): XMLReader

public open(string $uri, ?string $encoding = null, int $flags = 0): bool

public read(): bool

public readInnerXml(): string

public readOuterXml(): string

public readString(): string

public setParserProperty(int $property, bool $value): bool

public setRelaxNGSchema(?string $filename): bool

public setRelaxNGSchemaSource(?string $source): bool

public setSchema(?string $filename): bool

public static XML(string $source, ?string $encoding = null, int $flags = 0):