parse_xml

Parses an XML string to a LuaXmlDocument.

NOTE: The following character encodings are supported. If the XML uses a different character encoding, you can use the function convert_encoding to convert the encoding before parsing the XML.

  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16
  • ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)
  • ASCII

Syntax

parse_xml( xml )

Arguments

Argument Description
xml (string) XML data as a string.

Returns

(LuaXmlDocument). A LuaXmlDocument containing the parsed data, or nil if the string could not be parsed.