# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2007-01-10 09:47:39 +1100:
> I have spent most of last night and today looking at XML parsing and now am
> totally confused. Some testing I have done suggests that SimpleXML is not the
> way to go however I am open to suggestions if it might be an answer.

What makes you think simplexml is not for you? I don't say it is, but
you need to tell us exactly what you need.
 
> I would appreciate any help or advice on how to parse this XML response and 
> break it up
> into either an array or individual variables. It is important for this
> application to not only get the data contained between beginning and end tags
> but also the attributes as they contain important data returned from the 
> server.
> I am the first to admit that PHP XML Parsing has me lost.

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php has quite a few examples in
the user-contributed notes. Have you seen the manual?
 
> One other question I do have is that all of the examples I have seen, using 
> the
> xml_parser, seem to be designed around a file being read into the parser. Is 
> it
> possible for the XML data to be contained in a variable and then used in the
> parser?

Many of the examples at http://php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php use a
string variable as the source.

If that page in the manual is correct and there are no bugs, you should
be able to take off with

var_dump(new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr));

where $xmlstr contains the server response.

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