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	element has more than one text node, they will be arranged in the order they 
	are found</li>
</ul>
<p>SimpleXML is fast and easy to use when performing basic tasks like:</p>
<ul>
	<li>Reading XML files</li>
	<li>Extracting data from XML 
strings</li>
	<li>Editing text nodes or attributes</li>
</ul>
<p>However, when dealing with advanced XML, like namespaces, you are better off 
using the Expat parser or the XML DOM.</p>

<hr />

<h2>Installation</h2>
<p>As of PHP 5.0, the SimpleXML functions are part of the PHP core. There is no installation 
needed to use these functions.</p>
<hr />

<h2>Using SimpleXML</h2>
<p>Below is an XML file:</p>
<table class="ex" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td>
    <pre>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;
&lt;note&gt;
&lt;to&gt;Tove&lt;/to&gt;
&lt;from&gt;Jani&lt;/from&gt;
&lt;heading&gt;Reminder&lt;/heading&gt;
&lt;body&gt;Don't forget me this weekend!&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/note&gt;</pre>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p>We want to output the element names and data from the XML file above.</p>
<p>Here's what to do:</p>
<ol>
	<li>Load the XML file</li>
	<li>Get the name of the first element</li>
	<li>Create a loop that will trigger on each child node, using the children() 
	function</li>
	<li>Output the element name and data for each child node</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Example</b></p>
<table width="100%" border="1" class="ex" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>
<pre>&lt;?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file(&quot;test.xml&quot;);</pre>
<pre>echo $xml-&gt;getName() . &quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;;</pre>
<pre>foreach($xml-&gt;children() as $child)
  {
  echo $child-&gt;getName() . &quot;: &quot; . $child . &quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;;
  }
?&gt;</pre>
</td></tr></table>
<p>The output of the code above will be:</p>
<table class="ex" id="table1" border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td>
		<pre>note
to: Tove
from: Jani
heading: Reminder
body: Don't forget me this weekend!</pre>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>
<br />
<hr />

<h2>More PHP SimpleXML</h2>
<p>For more information about the PHP SimpleXML functions, visit our
<a href="php_ref_simplexml.asp">PHP SimpleXML Reference.</a><br />
</p>
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