This is a security component to prevent [XML eXternal Entity](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_%28XXE%29_Processing) (XXE) and [XML Entity Expansion](http://projects.webappsec.org/w/page/13247002/XML%20Entity%20Expansion) (XEE) attacks on XML documents.
The XXE attack is prevented disabling the load of external entities in the libxml library used by PHP, using the function [libxml_disable_entity_loader](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.libxml-disable-entity-loader.php).
The XEE attack is prevented looking inside the XML document for ENTITY usage. If the XML document uses ENTITY the library throw an Exception.
We have two static methods to scan and load XML document from a string (scan) and from a file (scanFile). You can decide to get a SimpleXMLElement or DOMDocument as result, using the following use cases: