# domxml_open_mem

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)

domxml_open_mem — Creates a DOM object of an XML document

### Description

DomDocument domxml_open_mem ( string `$str` [, int `$mode` [, array `&$error` ]] )

The function parses the XML document in the given string.

### Parameters

`str`

  The contents of the XML file.

`mode`

  This optional parameter can be used to change the behavior of this function.

  You can use one of the following constants for it: `DOMXML_LOAD_PARSING` (default), `DOMXML_LOAD_VALIDATING` or `DOMXML_LOAD_RECOVERING`. You can add to it also `DOMXML_LOAD_DONT_KEEP_BLANKS`, `DOMXML_LOAD_SUBSTITUTE_ENTITIES` and `DOMXML_LOAD_COMPLETE_ATTRS` by bitwise or.

`error`

  If used, it will contain the error messages. `error` must be passed in by reference.

### Return Values

Returns a DomDocument instance of the given XML contents.

### ChangeLog

Version | Description
--- | ---
4.3.0 | The `mode` and `error` parameters were added.

### Examples

Example#1 Opening an XML document in a string

`<?php
include("example.inc");
if (!$dom = domxml_open_mem($xmlstr)) {
echo "Error while parsing the document\n";
exit;
}
$root = $dom->document_element();
?>`

### See Also

- domxml_open_file()
- domxml_new_doc()