On the SitePoint PHP Blog today, there's an introductory look at some of the SimpleXML functionality in PHP5 - specifically, using it with namespaces.

There's a lot about SimpleXML, PHP5's new API for accessing the contents of XML documents, in SitePoint's recently-published book No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP, but one thing it doesn't cover is how to use SimpleXML with a document that makes use of XML Namespaces.

They provide and example RSS feed and some code showing how you'd think it'd react, how it actually reacts, and how to work around the "broken" support for it...