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Installation

This extension is enabled by default. It may be disabled by using the following option at compile time: --disable-xml

The Windows version of PHP has built-in support for this extension. You do not need to load any additional extensions in order to use these functions.

Changelog

Version Description
7.4.0 The --with-libexpat-dir has been renamed to --with-expat and no longer accepts a directory argument. The bundled expat library has been removed.


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