(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
DOMDocument::load — Load XML from a file
Loads an XML document from a file.
Unix style paths with forward slashes can cause significant performance degradation on Windows systems; be sure to call realpath() in such a case.
filenameThe path to the XML document.
options
Bitwise OR
of the libxml option constants.
Returns true on success or false on failure. If called statically, returns a
DOMDocument or false on failure.
If an empty string is passed as the filename
or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning
is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error
handling functions.
Prior to PHP 8.0.0 this method
could be called statically, but would issue an E_DEPRECATED error.
As of PHP 8.0.0 calling this method statically throws an Error exception
Example #1 Creating a Document
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>