SimpleXML and .xml.gz files

[martymac]

Now I swear this code was working last week, but in any case here goes...

I want to open archive.xml.gz using SimpleXML. Here is my code:

$xmlgz = gzopen($xml_loc, 'r');
$contents = gzread($xmlgz, 10000);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($contents);

However this is not working. When I do var_dump($xml) I get

bool(false)

But I know the .gz file is being opened because when I do print_r($contents) the entire XML file is returned as a string on the page. Any thoughts?

[martymac]

Anyone?

[eeek]

Sounds like the XML is flawed. Have you checked for errors?

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