Parser error on simplexml_load_file()

Question

I am trying to parse an xml document using php simplexml_load_file() function.

I have a demo.xml file in the site root

demo.xml

<?xml version="1.0"encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<sms>
<sender>foo bar</sender>
 <sentto>john doe</sentto>
 </sms>

And I am trying to get the value of sender , the following is my php code :

<?php

$xml=simplexml_load_file("demo.xml");
echo $xml->sender;

But I am getting the parser error whenever i try to load the php file.

Parser error : blank needed here in www/htdocs/read.php on line 3.

How can I solve it?

Thanks ,SK.

Federkun · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-23 15:10:27Z

3

The problem is here

<?xml version="1.0"encoding="UTF-8" ?>
------------------^

A space is needed, change it to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

answered Jan 23, 2016 at 15:10

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2 Comments

Amit Verma Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer, with your xml ,now I am getting this error : Xml declaration allowed only at the start of the document on line 3 ,Do you know what it means and how to get rid of it?

Federkun Over a year ago

maybe the contents of your demo.xml start with some newline?

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