Question

I have an XML doc that I need to load with PHP. I am currently using the simplexml_load_file() function, however the xml file is malformed, and consequently I am getting a parse error.

The XML file looks something like this:

...
</result>something1>
</else>
</else>
</resu
...

As you can see, this XML is whack and this function is throwing an error trying to parse it. Also I don’t need this data that is corrupted. I would just like to read in the stuff that I can and throw everything else away.

Answer 1

As Jonah Bron suggested, try DOMDocument::loadHTML():

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->strictErrorChecking = false;
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

$dom->loadHTML($xml);