PHP xml_parser_create_ns() Function

xml_parser_create_ns() creates a new XML parser with XML namespace support and returns a resource handle referencing it to be used by the other XML functions.

resource xml_parser_create_ns ([ string $encoding [, string $separator = ":" ]] )

The xml_parser_create_ns() function creates an XML parser with namespace support.

xml_parser_create_ns — Create an XML parser with namespace support

This function returns a resource handle to be used by other XML functions on success, or FALSE on failure.

Example -

ParameterDescription
encodingThe input encoding is automatically detected, so that the encoding parameter specifies only the output encoding. In PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, the default output charset is ISO-8859-1, while in PHP 5.0.2 and upper is UTF-8. The supported encodings are ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII.
separatorWith a namespace aware parser tag parameters passed to the various handler functions will consist of namespace and tag name separated by the string specified in separator.

Returns a resource handle for the new XML parser.