# xml_parser_set_option

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

xml_parser_set_option — Set options in an XML parser

### Description

bool xml_parser_set_option ( resource `$parser` , int `$option` , mixed `$value` )

Sets an option in an XML parser.

### Parameters

`parser`

  A reference to the XML parser to set an option in.

`option`

  Which option to set. See below.

  The following options are available:

  XML parser options
  Option constant | Data type | Description
  --- | --- | ---
  `XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING` | integer | Controls whether case-folding is enabled for this XML parser. Enabled by default.
  `XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART` | integer | Specify how many characters should be skipped in the beginning of a tag name.
  `XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE` | integer | Whether to skip values consisting of whitespace characters.
  `XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING` | string | Sets which target encoding to use in this XML parser.By default, it is set to the same as the source encoding used by xml_parser_create(). Supported target encodings are ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII and UTF-8.

`value`

  The option's new value.

### Return Values

This function returns `FALSE` if `parser` does not refer to a valid parser, or if the option could not be set. Else the option is set and `TRUE` is returned.