PHP Manual: Parses an response XML string into a SolrObject

public static SolrObject SolrUtils::digestXmlResponse ( string $xmlresponse [, int $parse_mode = 0 ] )

This method parses an response XML string from the Apache Solr server into a SolrObject. It throws a SolrException if there was an error.

xmlresponse: The XML response string from the Solr server.
parse_mode: Use SolrResponse::PARSE_SOLR_OBJ or SolrResponse::PARSE_SOLR_DOC

Returns the SolrObject representing the XML response.

If the parse_mode parameter is set to SolrResponse::PARSE_SOLR_OBJ Solr documents will be parses as SolrObject instances.

If it is set to SolrResponse::PARSE_SOLR_DOC, they will be parsed as SolrDocument instances.