Processing XML with PHP - An Introduction

sdphp_talk.xml

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<talk>
 <title>Processing XML with PHP - An Introduction</title>
 <date>2002-08-26</date>
 <speaker>Jesus M. Castagnetto</speaker>
 <url>http://www.sdphp.net/talks/intro_xml</url>
</talk>

This is a document that we could use to describe this talk, it has a root element (talk), that contains other simple elements (title, date, speaker, and url).

Let us put the data into structures that we can then manipulate as needed.