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# 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.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Query Manipulation Server 26.2

Topic Title: parse_xml