Hi Carlos I looked at the documentation for hours but don't see any solution. I'm uploading a sample file here. The full file contains around 100 properties but the uploaded file has just one. I need to extract data from this file to write to a MySQL database. I have no problem in doing this until it comes to the <elements>-><element> tags. I only need 3 of these elements. I can extract the data by iteration but that does not help me to get the three specific <element> tags that I need because there are some tags that appear for some properties and not for others so the order is different. Here is the file: http://old.nabble.com/file/p27496211/annnonces.xml annnonces.xml Thanks Terry -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/simplexml---can-it-do-what-I-need--tp27481222p27496211.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