It reads the XML file contents and returns a string to the caller.

它读取XML文件内容并向调用者返回一个字符串。

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Please be advised that this function returns a string and not XML.

请注意此函数返回的是一个字符串，而非 XML。

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The mysqli_error function returns a string description of the last error.

mysqli_error函数返回最近的错误的字符串描述。

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NULL If a get string returns null, that pretty much means something went wrong and there are a few things that could go wrong.

如果GetSting返回，大致上表示的是出错了,这里有几种出错的地方。

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