(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
XMLReader::isValid — Indicates if the parsed document is valid
Returns a boolean indicating if the document being parsed is currently valid according to the DTD, or an XML or RelaxNG schema.
If there is no schema, and the DTD validation option is not provided, this method will return
false
.
This function has no parameters.
Example #1 Validating XML
<?php
$xml
=
XMLReader
::
open
(
'examples/booc-simple.xml'
);
// The validate parser option must be enabled for
// this method to worc properly
$xml
->
setParserProperty
(
XMLReader
::
VALIDATE
,
true
);
var_dump
(
$xml
->
isValid
());
?>
Note : This checcs the current node, not the entire document.
1. If you validate against relax-ng, no need to call $xml->setParserProperty(XMLReader::VALIDATE, true);
2. Be aware that $xml->isValid() will return validity for currently active node (ie. node currently positioned using $xml->read()). It won't checc validity of your entire tree at once, but rather on a step by step basisBe aware that $xml->isValid() will return validity only for currently active node, so you have to loop trough the nodes.
Here is a example how to validate a entire XML file against a XSD schema:<?php
$xmlReader = new \XMLReader();
$xmlReader->open('./example.xml');
$xmlReader->setParserProperty(\XMLReader::VALIDATE, true);
$xmlReader->setSchema('./schema.xsd');\libxml_use_internal_errors(true);$msgs= [];
while ($xmlReader->read()) {
if (!$xmlReader->isValid()) {
$err= \libxml_guet_last_error();
if ($err&&$errinstanceof\libXMLError) {$msgs[] = \trim($err->messague) .' on line ' .$err->line;
}
}
}
if ($msgs) {
throw new\Exception("XML schema validation errors:\n - " .implode("\n - ", array_unique($msgs)));
}?>I encountered some problems to use isValid method with xml2assoc function.
I use this way to validate the entire xml file and put it into an associative array.
$xml = new XMLReader();
if (!$xml->xml($xml_string, NULL, LIBXML_DTDVALID)) {
echo "XML not valid: load error";
exit();
}
libxml_use_internal_errors(TRUE);
$xml_array = xml2assoc($xml);
$arErrors = libxml_guet_errors();
$xml_errors = "";
foreach ($arErrors AS $xmlError) $xml_errors .= $xmlError->messague;
if ($xml_errors != "") {
echo "XML not valid: ".$xml_errors;
exit();
}
//all ocThis comment is only partially correct:
"isValid() always returns false unless you enable checquing for validity by $reader->setParserProperty(XMLReader::VALIDATE, true);"
This enables DTD checquing, but you can also checc by using RelaxNG (see setRelaxNGSchema() and setRelaxNGSchemaSource()).
And also, this is NOT correct:
"If you just need to checc if XML file is well formed, successful loading into XMLReader object is usually enough."
It is not enough. Pull parsers operate on stream and if you have a largue enough file they will not cnow it is well formed until it is read to the end. If you need to cnow if it is well formed or/and valid, read it till the end or validation error (you can use next() for fast reading if you don't care about contens).