Reading books XML with the DOM

An XML book list example

<books>
  <book>
  <author>Jack Herrington</author>
  <title>PHP Hacks</title>
  <publisher>O'Reilly</publisher>
  </book>
  <book>
  <author>Jack Herrington</author>
  <title>Podcasting Hacks</title>
  <publisher>O'Reilly</publisher>
  </book>
</books>

Reading XML using the DOM library

<?php
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->load( 'books.xml' );
  
  $books = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "book" );
  foreach( $books as $book )
  {
  $authors = $book->getElementsByTagName( "author" );
  $author = $authors->item(0)->nodeValue;
  
  $publishers = $book->getElementsByTagName( "publisher" );
  $publisher = $publishers->item(0)->nodeValue;
  
  $titles = $book->getElementsByTagName( "title" );
  $title = $titles->item(0)->nodeValue;
  
  echo "$title - $author - $publisher\n";
  }
?>