XML DOM question

[bbolte]

how do I tell the DOM not to attempt to parse an XML file if it's invalid? I'll get warnings like this: "Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [function.DOMDocument-loadXML]: Space required after the Public Identifier in Entity, line: 1 in..." and such. below is the code that I've been using:

$dom=new DomDocument();
    $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
    $dom->validateOnParse=false;
    //$dom->loadXML($fxml);
    $fxml=trim($fxml);
    //echo $fxml;
    
    if($dom->loadXML($fxml)==false){
... 

any tips?

[php_daemon]

I'm afraid the only way is suppressing the warnings:

if(@$dom->loadXML($fxml)==false){

Yes, php is that stupid for having exceptions and not making use of them.

[bbolte]

yeah prolly. it's a weird warning. back in my MS days, the dom reader would just not load it if it wasn't valid xml and give me a false return. thanks.