(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
DOMDocument::load — Load XML from a file
Loads an XML document from a file.
Unix style paths with forward slashes can cause significant performance degradation on Windows systems; be sure to call realpath() in such a case.
filenameThe path to the XML document.
options
Bitwise OR
of the libxml option constants.
If an empty string is passed as the filename
or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning
is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error
handling functions.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.3.0 | This function now has a tentative bool return type. |
| 8.0.0 |
Calling this function statically will
now throw an Error.
Previously, an E_DEPRECATED was raised.
|
Example #1 Creating a Document
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>