In this case "media" is a namespace, so is "live". The XML should have some lines above the ones you posted defining those namespaces. Try something like this: $simplexml = simplexml_load_string(...your entire xml...); $url0 = $simplexml->xpath( '//media:content' ); $url = $url0[0]->attributes()->url; $title = $simplexml->xpath( '//media:title' ); research simplexml, xpath, and namespaces. Good Luck -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Simple-XML-in-PHP-tp22690831p22694472.html Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php