PHP 5 has been presented as a revolution, a lot of new features have been added and a lot of projects have been made. But only a small group of hosters seem interested in supporting PHP 5 on their web servers. It is not so useful to have a beautiful programming language to use if we can't apply it to production environments.

We MUST use PHP 5 to help it growing until it become the standard...

PHP5 has seen a pretty slow adoption rate so far, but according to some statistics, its usage has been picking up lately - even among hosting providers.

Now that PHP 5 is becoming more and more prevalent over its predecessors, some really good books that cover PHP need revisions. Nowhere is this more true than with XML-related topics, where PHP 5 has a completely different way of working with XML - and, in fact, the mechanisms from PHP 4 will no longer work.

In this article, we'll be looking at one way to build and parse an XML tree using the new methods in PHP 5.

They look at a generic XML document they'll use to test and move quickly into a way to create it using the DOM functionality in PHP. From there, they use a simple ten-line script to parse it and echo it back out...