How to parse an XML ignoring errors with SimpleXML

Question

Often my .xml document contains errors. I would want to parse my document anyway up to errors or try to fix errors automatically. Is that possible?

I have tried th

Answer 1

From PHP DOC simplexml_load_file options should be int not array

Replace

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url, "SimpleXMLElement", array(LIBXML_NOERROR, LIBXML_ERR_NONE));
                                                       ^------- You are using array

With

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_NOERROR |  LIBXML_ERR_NONE);

Instead of suppressing this errors you can as well fix the xml with Tidy package.

Example bad.xml

    Hankre
    2
     16 
    
        Nice 
        Food 
        

Fix XML

$config = array(
    'indent' => true,
    'clean' => true,
    'input-xml'  => true,
    'output-xml' => true,
    'wrap'       => false
    );

$tidy = new Tidy();
$xml = $tidy->repairfile($badXML, $config);
echo $xml;

Output

    Hankre
    2
    16
    
        Nice
        Food