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QUESTION: How To Suppress Xml Tag Errors Present On Third Party Websites Crawler Crawling ?

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Error gets shown here: 

	$dom->loadXML($xml); //LINE: 44

RESULT:
I get echoed:

**( ! ) Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Start tag expected, '<' not found in Entity, line: 6 in C:\wamp64... on line 44 Call Stack # Time Memory Function Location 1 0.0034 362440 {main}( ) ...\crawler_Test.php:0 2 14.0745 365456 loadXML( $source = class SimpleXMLElement { public $sitemap = [0 => class SimpleXMLElement { ... }, 1 => class SimpleXMLElement { ... }, 2 => class SimpleXMLElement { ... }, 3 => class SimpleXMLElement { ... }] } ) 46 73 SiteMaps Crawled: --- Array ( ) Html Pages Crawled: --- Array ( ) Array ( ) Array ( ) Array ( ) 50 Array ( ) Array ( ) Array ( ) **

 

CODE 

	<?php
	ini_set('display_errors',1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
	//START OF SCRIPT FLOW.
	//Preparing Crawler & Session: Initialising Variables.
	//Preparing $ARRAYS For Step 1: To Deal with Xml Links meant for Crawlers only.
//SiteMaps Details Scraped from SiteMaps or Xml Files.
$sitemaps  = []; //This will list extracted further Xml SiteMap links (.xml) found on Sitemaps (.xml).
$sitemaps_last_mods  = []; //This will list dates of SiteMap pages last modified - found on Sitemaps.
$sitemaps_change_freqs  = []; //his will list SiteMap dates of html pages frequencies of page updates - found on Sitemaps.
$sitemaps_priorities  = []; //This will list SiteMap pages priorities - found on Sitemaps.
	//Webpage Details Scraped from SiteMaps or Xml Files.
$html_page_urls  = []; //This will list extracted html links Urls (.html, .htm, .php) - found on Sitemaps (.xml).
$html_page_last_mods  = []; //This will list dates of html pages last modified - found on Sitemap.
$html_page_change_freqs  = []; //his will list dates of html pages frequencies of page updates - found on Sitemaps.
$html_page_priorities  = []; //This will list html pages priorities - found on Sitemaps.
	//Preparing $ARRAYS For Step 2: To Deal with html pages meant for Human Visitors only.
//Data Scraped from Html Files. Not Xml SiteMap Files.
$html_page_meta_names  = []; //This will list crawled pages Meta Tag Names - found on html pages.
$html_page_meta_descriptions  = []; //This will list crawled pages Meta Tag Descriptions - found on html pages.
$html_page_titles  = []; //This will list crawled pages Titles - found on html pages.
// -----
	//Step 1: Initiate Session - Feed Xml SiteMap Url. Crawing Starting Point.
//Crawl Session Starting Page/Initial Xml Sitemap. (NOTE: Has to be .xml SItemap).
$initial_url = "https://www.rocktherankings.com/sitemap_index.xml"; //Has more xml files.
	//$xmls = file_get_contents($initial_url); //Should I stick to this line or below line ?
//Parse the sitemap content to object
//$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmls); //Should I stick to this line or above line ?
$xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($initial_url)); //Code from Dani: https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/540168/what-to-lookout-for-to-prevent-crawler-traps
	$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXML($xml); //LINE: 44
	echo __LINE__; echo '<br>'; //LINE: 46
	extract_links($xml);
	echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';  //LINE: 50
	foreach($sitemaps AS $sitemap)
{
    echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';
    extract_links($sitemap); //Extract Links on page.
}
	foreach($html_page_urls AS $html_page_url)
{
    echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';
    extract_links($html_page_url); //Extract Links on page.
}
	scrape_page_data(); //Scrape Page Title & Meta Tags.
	//END OF SCRIPT FLOW.
	//DUNCTIONS BEYOND THIS POINT.
	//Links Extractor.
function extract_links()
{
    echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';  //LINE: 73
    
    GLOBAL $dom;
    //Trigger following IF/ELSEs on each Crawled Page to check for link types. Whether Links lead to more SiteMaps (.xml) or webpages (.html, .htm, .php, etc.).
    if ($dom->nodeName === 'sitemapindex')  //Current Xml SiteMap Page lists more Xml SiteMaps. Lists links to Xml links. Not lists links to html links.
    {
        echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';
        
        //parse the index
        // retrieve properties from the sitemap object
        foreach ($xml->sitemapindex as $urlElement) //Extracts html file urls.
        {
            // get properties
            $sitemaps[] = $sitemap_url = $urlElement->loc;
            $sitemaps_last_mods[] = $last_mod = $urlElement->lastmod;
            $sitemaps_change_freqs[] = $change_freq = $urlElement->changefreq;
            $sitemaps_priorities[] = $priority = $urlElement->priority;
	            // print out the properties
            echo 'url: '. $sitemap_url . '<br>';
            echo 'lastmod: '. $last_mod . '<br>';
            echo 'changefreq: '. $change_freq . '<br>';
            echo 'priority: '. $priority . '<br>';
	            echo '<br>---<br>';
        }
    }
    else if ($dom->nodeName === 'urlset')  //Current Xml SiteMap Page lists no more Xml SiteMap links. Lists only html links.
    {
        echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';
        
        //parse url set
        // retrieve properties from the sitemap object
        foreach ($xml->urlset as $urlElement) //Extracts Sitemap Urls.
        {
            // get properties
            $html_page_urls[] = $html_page_url = $urlElement->loc;
            $html_page_last_mods[] = $last_mod = $urlElement->lastmod;
            $html_page_change_freqs[] = $change_freq = $urlElement->changefreq;
            $html_page_priorities[] = $priority = $urlElement->priority;
	            // print out the properties
            echo 'url: '. $html_page_url . '<br>';
            echo 'lastmod: '. $last_mod . '<br>';
            echo 'changefreq: '. $change_freq . '<br>';
            echo 'priority: '. $priority . '<br>';
	            echo '<br>---<br>';
        }
    }
    
    GLOBAL $sitemaps;
    GLOBAL $sitemaps_last_mods;
    GLOBAL $sitemaps_change_freqs;
    GLOBAL $sitemaps_priorities;
    
    GLOBAL $html_page_urls;
    GLOBAL $html_page_last_mods;
    GLOBAL $html_page_change_freqs;
    GLOBAL $html_page_priorities;
    
    echo 'SiteMaps Crawled: ---'; echo '<br><br>';
    if(array_count_values($sitemaps)>0)
    {    
        print_r($sitemaps);
        echo '<br>';
    }
    elseif(array_count_values($sitemaps_last_mods)>0)
    {    
        print_r($sitemaps_last_mods);
        echo '<br>';
    }
    elseif(array_count_values($sitemaps_change_freqs)>0)
    {    
        print_r($sitemaps_change_freqs);
        echo '<br>';
    }
    elseif(array_count_values($sitemaps_priorities)>0)
    {    
        print_r($sitemaps_priorities);
        echo '<br><br>';
    }
	    echo 'Html Pages Crawled: ---'; echo '<br><br>';
	    if(array_count_values($html_page_urls)>0)
    {    
        print_r($html_page_urls);
        echo '<br>';
    }
    if(array_count_values($html_page_last_mods)>0)
    {    
        print_r($html_page_last_mods);
        echo '<br>';
    }
    if(array_count_values($html_page_change_freqs)>0)
    {    
        print_r($html_page_change_freqs);
        echo '<br>';
    }
    if(array_count_values($html_page_priorities)>0)
    {    
        print_r($html_page_priorities);
        echo '<br>';
    }
}
	//Meta Data & Title Extractor.
function scrape_page_data()
{
    GLOBAL $html_page_urls;
    if(array_count_values($html_page_urls)>0)
    {        
        foreach($html_page_urls AS $url)
        {
            // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents
            $html = file_get_contents($url);
	            //https://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.construct.php
            $doc = new DOMDocument();
	            // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.libxml-use-internal-errors.php
            libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
	            // https://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php
            $doc->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_COMPACT|LIBXML_NOERROR|LIBXML_NOWARNING);
	            // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.libxml-clear-errors.php
            libxml_clear_errors();
	            // https://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.getelementsbytagname.php
            $meta_tags = $doc->getElementsByTagName('meta');
	            // https://www.php.net/manual/en/domnodelist.item.php
            if ($meta_tags->length > 0)
            {
                // https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domnodelist.php
                foreach ($meta_tags as $tag)
                {
                    // https://www.php.net/manual/en/domnodelist.item.php
                    echo 'Meta Name: ' .$meta_name = $tag->getAttribute('name'); echo '<br>';
                    echo 'Meta Content: ' .$meta_content = $tag->getAttribute('content');  echo '<br>';
                    $html_page_meta_names[] = $meta_name;
                    $html_page_meta_descriptions[] = $meta_content;
                }
            }
	            //EXAMPLE 1: Extract Title
            $title_tag = $doc->getElementsByTagName('title');
            if ($title_tag->length>0)
            {
                echo 'Title: ' .$title = $title_tag[0]->textContent; echo '<br>';
                $html_page_titles[] = $title;
            }
	            //EXAMPLE 2: Extract Title
            $title_tag = $doc->getElementsByTagName('title');
	            for ($i = 0; $i < $title_tag->length; $i++) {
                echo 'Title: ' .$title = $title_tag->item($i)->nodeValue . "\n";
                $html_page_titles[] = $title;
            }
        }
    }
}
	if(array_count_values($html_page_meta_names)>0)
{    
    print_r($html_page_meta_names);
    echo '<br>';
}
	if(array_count_values($html_page_meta_descriptions)>0)
{    
    print_r($html_page_meta_descriptions);
    echo '<br>';
}
	if(array_count_values($html_page_titles)>0)
{    
    print_r($html_page_titles);
    echo '<br>';
}
	//END OF FUNCTIONS.
	
?>

I can’t afford to get errors like this as not all websites will be code error free.
I want to suppress such error that gets shown due to coding errors on webpages crawled on third party websites. How to do this ?

NOTE:
I should only get error if my own code (crawler is coded in error) has errors.
I do not know how to suppress the error.
I would like to know if there are any error on my coding that could cause issues while crawling the web or later on at any point.

 

Regards!

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