--TEST-- libxml_get_errors() --EXTENSIONS-- simplexml --FILE-- PHP: Behind the Parser XML; $doc = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr); $xml = explode("\n", $xmlstr); if (!$doc) { $errors = libxml_get_errors(); foreach ($errors as $error) { echo display_xml_error($error, $xml); } var_dump(libxml_get_last_error()); } function display_xml_error($error, $xml) { $return = $xml[$error->line - 1] . "\n"; $return .= str_repeat('-', $error->column) . "^\n"; switch ($error->level) { case LIBXML_ERR_WARNING: $return .= "Warning $error->code: "; break; case LIBXML_ERR_ERROR: $return .= "Error $error->code: "; break; case LIBXML_ERR_FATAL: $return .= "Fatal Error $error->code: "; break; } $return .= trim($error->message) . "\n Line: $error->line" . "\n Column: $error->column"; if ($error->file) { $return .= "\n File: $error->file"; } return "$return\n\n--------------------------------------------\n\n"; } echo "Done\n"; ?> --EXPECTF-- bool(false) PHP: Behind the Parser %s Fatal Error 76: Opening and ending tag mismatch: titles line 4 and title Line: 4 Column: %d -------------------------------------------- object(LibXMLError)#%d (6) { ["level"]=> int(3) ["code"]=> int(76) ["column"]=> int(%d) ["message"]=> string(57) "Opening and ending tag mismatch: titles line 4 and title " ["file"]=> string(0) "" ["line"]=> int(4) } Done