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# xml_set_element_handler

(3.0.6 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

xml_set_element_handler -- set up start and end element handlers

## Description

``int xml_set_element_handler` (int parser, string startElementHandler, string endElementHandler)`

Sets the element handler functions for the XML parser `parser`. `startElementHandler` and `endElementHandler` are strings containing the names of functions that must exist when xml_parse() is called for `parser`.

The function named by `startElementHandler` must accept three parameters:

```startElementHandler`` (int parser, string name, array attribs)`

`parser`

  The first parameter, `parser`, is a reference to the XML parser calling the handler.

`name`

  The second parameter, `name`, contains the name of the element for which this handler is called. If case-folding is in effect for this parser, the element name will be in uppercase letters.

`attribs`

  The third parameter, `attribs`, contains an associative array with the element's attributes (if any). The keys of this array are the attribute names, the values are the attribute values. Attribute names are case-folded on the same criteria as element names. Attribute values are not case-folded.

  The original order of the attributes can be retrieved by walking through `attribs` the normal way, using each(). The first key in the array was the first attribute, and so on.

The function named by `endElementHandler` must accept two parameters:

```endElementHandler`` (int parser, string name)`

`parser`

  The first parameter, `parser`, is a reference to the XML parser calling the handler.

`name`

  The second parameter, `name`, contains the name of the element for which this handler is called. If case-folding is in effect for this parser, the element name will be in uppercase letters.

If a handler function is set to an empty string, or `FALSE`, the handler in question is disabled.

`TRUE` is returned if the handlers are set up, `FALSE` if `parser` is not a parser.

There is currently no support for object/method handlers. See xml_set_object() for using the XML parser within an object.

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