xml parsing with php

[meghatronic]

I am using the following to quickly parse some xml, however, there is more than one author.... and I'm not sure how to fix this.

xml:

  <Item Name="Author" Type="String">Barrett AJ</Item> 
  <Item Name="Author" Type="String">Rawlings ND</Item>

php:

$data = implode("", file($url)); 
preg_match_all ("/<DocSum>([^`]*?)<\/DocSum>/", $data, $matches);
foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
preg_match ("/<Item Name=\"Author\" Type=\"String\">([^`]*?)<\/Item>/", $match, $authors);
	  }
$authors = implode(", ", $authors);
echo "authors: " . $authors;

output:

authors: Barrett AJ, Barrett AJ

 

[meghatronic]

^ No, you've got the wrong end of the stick.

I sorted it temporarily just using preg match all, looking at SimpleXML for long term solution. It was that I used before - cheers