swegylaggy

class XMLStuff
{
    function get_xPath($xmlFileName = 'news.xml')
    {
        $xmlDocument = new DOMDocument();
        // Load the XML document
        $xmlDocument->load($xmlFileName);
        $xPath = new DOMXPath($xmlDocument);
        return $xPath;
    }

    function xml2array($xmlObject, $out = array())
    {
        foreach ((array)$xmlObject as $index => $node)
            $out[$index] = (is_object($node)) ? xml2array($node) : $node;

        return $out;
    }

    function setQuery($xmlFileName = 'news.xml'){
        $xPathQuery = "/articles/article";
        // Execute the query
        $queryNodes = $this->get_xPath($xmlFileName)->query($xPathQuery);

        return $queryNodes;
    }
}