PHP Manual: Create an XML parser

XMLParser xml_parser_create(stringnull $encoding = null)

xml_parser_create creates a new XML parser and returns a XMLParser instance to be used by the other XML functions.

encoding: The input encoding is automatically detected, so that the encoding parameter specifies only the output encoding. If empty string is passed, the parser attempts to identify which encoding the document is encoded in by looking at the heading 3 or 4 bytes. The default output charset is UTF-8. The supported encodings are ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII.

Returns a new XMLParser instance.

Version	Description
8.0.0	This function returns an XMLParser instance now; previously, a resource was returned, or `false` on failure.
8.0.0	`encoding` is nullable now.

xml_parser_create