How to echo an XML string to an HTML page for debugging?

You can use htmlentities to output the XML string so that you can get a plaintext view of it in a browser.

<?php echo htmlentities( $xml_string); ?>

Alternatively, you can parse the XML string to reveal the error message, but this may be more complicated than what you need.

php xml debugging escaping

Try echo htmlentities($var, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')

php xml debugging escaping

i always use this:

echo "<pre>". htmlentities($s) . "</pre>";

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