Posted by bleen on 07/18/07 19:53

I'm trying to use SimpleXML but I've run into a conundrum. Every day
an XML file is generated that this script grabs and manipulates. How
can I check that the XML has no problems before creating my
SimpleXMLelement object. Here's what I mean:

// this is the code in question:
$file_topstory = /some/xml/file.xml
$top_story_xml = new SimpleXMLElement($file_topstory, NULL, TRUE);

If the XML doc contains (for example) a URL with an '&' in it then the
script fails. I'd like to do something like this:

if(is_valid_xml($file_topstory)){
$top_story_xml = new SimpleXMLElement($file_topstory, NULL, TRUE);
}else{
// ERROR
}

How can i accomplish this?

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