This class is extendable, but it's too bad that its constructor cannot be overriden (PHP says it's a final method). Thus the class should be wrapped using the delegation principle rather that extended.
SimpleXMLElement->__construct
(No version information available, might be only in CVS)
SimpleXMLElement->__construct — Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object
Description
Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object.
Parameters
- data
-
A well-formed XML string or the path or URL to an XML document if data_is_url is TRUE.
- options
-
Optionally used to specify additional Libxml parameters.
- data_is_url
-
By default, data_is_url is FALSE. Use TRUE to specify that data is a path or URL to an XML document instead of string data.
- ns
-
- is_prefix
-
Return Values
Returns a SimpleXMLElement object representing data .
Errors/Exceptions
Produces an E_WARNING error message for each error found in the XML data and throws an exception if errors were detected.
Examples
Example #1 Create a SimpleXMLElement object
<?php
include 'example.php';
$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
echo $sxe->movie[0]->title;
?>
Example #2 Create a SimpleXMLElement object from a URL
<?php
$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement('http://example.org/document.xml', NULL, TRUE);
echo $sxe->asXML();
?>
SimpleXMLElement->__construct
20-Nov-2007 06:35
