Простой синтаксический анализ XML с помощью PHP

//this is a sample xml string $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 />'; }