Question

Some times I receive text outside the xml tags in XML like this:

Bad command error. XYZ. Some more text<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xml></xml>

This returns error in php. Because I am using this function to read the xml:

simplexml_load_string($xml);

Is there a way that I can remove the text outside xml tags so that i do not get error in xml ?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

if (preg_match("/<\\?xml.*\\?>.*/", $xml, $matches)) {
    $xml = $matches[0];
}