PHP - PARSING XML DATA

Below PHP snippet will help you explain how you can parse XML data in PHP.

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$xml_string="<?xml version='1.0'?> <moleculedb>     <molecule name='Benzine'>         <symbol>ben</symbol>         <code>A</code>     </molecule>     <molecule name='Water'>         <symbol>h2o</symbol>         <code>K</code>     </molecule> </moleculedb>"; //load the xml string using simplexml function $xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string); //loop through the each node of molecule foreach ($xml->molecule as $record) {    //attribute are accessted by    echo $record['name'], '  ';    //node are accessted by -> operator    echo $record->symbol, '  ';    echo $record->code, '<br />'; }