PHP xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler Function

The xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler — Set up start namespace declaration handler

bool xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler ( resource $parser , callable $handler )

Set a handler to be called when a namespace is declared. Namespace declarations occur inside start tags. But the namespace declaration start handler is called before the start tag handler for each namespace declared in that start tag.

ParameterDescription
parserA reference to the XML parser.
handlerhandler is a string containing the name of a function that must exist when xml_parse() is called for parser.

The Function specified by the "handler" parameter must have three parameters

ParameterDescription
parserThe first parameter, parser, is a reference to the XML parser calling the handler.
prefixThe prefix is a string used to reference the namespace within an XML object.
uriUniform Resource Identifier (URI) of namespace.If a handler function is set to an empty string, or FALSE, the handler in question is disabled.