On Fri, April 1, 2005 1:53 pm, Brian Dunning said: > I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. > My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy solution that I'm > just missing. I have a hunk of well-formed XML in a variable, $xml, and > it contains only one instance of <price>x.xx</price>. I just want to > get the $price out of $xml. What's the simplest way? Simplest? $xml = file_get_contents('...'); $parts = explode('<price>', $xml); $price = $parts[1]; $parts = explode('</price>', $price); $price = $parts[0]; XML fans now all want to kill me, but there it is. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php