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xml:
<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>





Codice PHP:
<?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";
  }
  
?>