load("book.xml"); if(!$dom) { echo "Error while parsing the document\n"; exit; } print "As SimpleXML\n"; $s = simplexml_import_dom($dom); $books = $s->book; foreach ($books as $book) { echo "{$book->title} was written by {$book->author}\n"; } print "As DOM \n"; $dom = dom_import_simplexml($s); $books = $dom->getElementsByTagName("book"); foreach ($books as $book) { $title = $book->getElementsByTagName("title"); $author = $book->getElementsByTagName("author"); echo $title[0]->firstChild->data . " was written by ". $author[0]->firstChild->data . "\n"; } ?>