Using XPath and SimpleXML in a basic example
<? $s = simplexml_load_file('address-book.xml'); $emails = $s->xpath('/address-book/person/email'); foreach ($emails as $email) { // do something with $email } ?> // <?xml version="1.0"?> <address-book> <person id="1"> <firstname>D</firstname> <lastname>S</lastname> <city>New York</city> <state>NY</state> <email>s@php.net</email> </person> <person id="2"> <firstname>A</firstname> <lastname>T</lastname> <city>San Francisco</city> <state>CA</state> <email>a@php.net</email> </person> </address-book>