Catch XML parsing Exceptions.

[alexgeek]

Okay I'm trying to create an API.
I need to it be user friendly so it can't output an errors.
I've used a try {} catch() {} in this class and purposely passed a file doesn't exist to the constructor.
I would expect $x to just return false and the script to die but I get this error:

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [function.SimpleXMLElement---construct]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "settings.php" in C:\Web\XML\XMLsettingsCMS\parse.php on line 56

And this is my class and it being instantiated.

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class XMLstore {
    private $XML;
    function __construct($xmlfile) {
    $this->XML = $xmlfile;
     try {
         $this->handle = new SimpleXMLElement($this->XML, NULL, true);
    } 
    catch(Exception $e) {
        return false;
        }        

    }
}
if(!$x = new XMLstore('settings.php')) { die("Couldn't be done"); }