i was trying to check the validity of a string as xml using this simplexml_load_string()Docs function but it displays a lot of warning messages.
How can I check whe
try this one
//check if xml is valid document
public function _isValidXML($xml) {
$doc = @simplexml_load_string($xml);
if ($doc) {
return true; //this is valid
} else {
return false; //this is not valid
}
}
My version like this:
//validate only XML. HTML will be ignored.
function isValidXml($content)
{
$content = trim($content);
if (empty($content)) {
return false;
}
//html go to hell!
if (stripos($content, '<!DOCTYPE html>') !== false) {
return false;
}
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
simplexml_load_string($content);
$errors = libxml_get_errors();
libxml_clear_errors();
return empty($errors);
}
Tests:
//false
var_dump(isValidXml('<!DOCTYPE html><html><body></body></html>'));
//true
var_dump(isValidXml('<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?><root></root>'));
//false
var_dump(isValidXml(null));
//false
var_dump(isValidXml(1));
//false
var_dump(isValidXml(false));
//false
var_dump(isValidXml('asdasds'));
Occasionally check availability of a Google Merchant XML feed.
The feed is without DTD, so validate() won't work.
// disable forwarding those load() errors to PHP
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
// initiate the DOMDocument and attempt to load the XML file
$dom = new \DOMDocument;
$dom->load($path_to_xml_file);
// check if the file contents are what we're expecting them to be
// `item` here is for Google Merchant, replace with what you expect
$success = $dom->getElementsByTagName('item')->length > 0;
// alternatively, just check if the file was loaded successfully
$success = null !== $dom->actualEncoding;
length above contains a number of how many products are actually listed in the file. You can use your tag names instead.
You can call getElementsByTagName() on any other tag names (item
I used is for Google Merchant, your case may vary), or read other properties on the $dom
object itself. The logic stays the same: instead of checking if there were errors when loading the file, I believe actually trying to manipulate it (or specifically check if it contains the values you actually need) would be more reliable.
Most important: unlike validate(), this won't require your XML to have a DTD.
Use libxml_use_internal_errors() to suppress all XML errors, and libxml_get_errors() to iterate over them afterwards.
Simple XML loading string
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$doc = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
$xml = explode("\n", $xmlstr);
if (!$doc) {
$errors = libxml_get_errors();
foreach ($errors as $error) {
echo display_xml_error($error, $xml);
}
libxml_clear_errors();
}
From the documentation:
Dealing with XML errors when loading documents is a very simple task. Using the
libxml
functionality it is possible to suppress all XML errors when loading the document and then iterate over the errors.The
libXMLError
object, returned bylibxml_get_errors()
, contains several properties including themessage
,line
andcolumn
(position) of the error.
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$sxe = simplexml_load_string("<?xml version='1.0'><broken><xml></broken>");
if (!$sxe) {
echo "Failed loading XML\n";
foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {
echo "\t", $error->message;
}
}
Reference: libxml_use_internal_errors
Here a small piece of class I wrote a while ago:
/**
* Class XmlParser
* @author Francesco Casula <fra.casula@gmail.com>
*/
class XmlParser
{
/**
* @param string $xmlFilename Path to the XML file
* @param string $version 1.0
* @param string $encoding utf-8
* @return bool
*/
public function isXMLFileValid($xmlFilename, $version = '1.0', $encoding = 'utf-8')
{
$xmlContent = file_get_contents($xmlFilename);
return $this->isXMLContentValid($xmlContent, $version, $encoding);
}
/**
* @param string $xmlContent A well-formed XML string
* @param string $version 1.0
* @param string $encoding utf-8
* @return bool
*/
public function isXMLContentValid($xmlContent, $version = '1.0', $encoding = 'utf-8')
{
if (trim($xmlContent) == '') {
return false;
}
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$doc = new DOMDocument($version, $encoding);
$doc->loadXML($xmlContent);
$errors = libxml_get_errors();
libxml_clear_errors();
return empty($errors);
}
}
It works fine with streams and vfsStream as well for testing purposes.