XML has the promise to change the face of web applications for years to come, but there's just one problem. Too many people can't harness this power and make use of the flexibility of XML because there's not an easy set of applications to help. Well, if you're one of those, you might want to check out this new set of classes over on SourceForge.

The phpxml classes provide a set of simple function to do things like: checking to see if a remote URL is properly formatted XML, storing and querying RDF files in a database, event-driven functions based on the XML structure, and a class to help parse RDDL documents.

The classes are a great idea, and a step in the right direction as far as XML parsing with PHP goes. Now that things are getting a bit more set (especially with the DOMXML extension) as far as parsing XML in PHP, I hope that we see more and more of these "simple tools" pop up around the net. They can only serve to make XML and PHP that much closer, and make web services/applications that much stronger...