Introduction and Pre-Requisites

This tutorial will explain how to parse (that is, read and interpret) information from a XML file using PHP.

I will discuss the very basics of XML (mainly structure), and then jump right in to the reading and parsing of XML files.

This is not a tutorial on XML itself, just parsing XML with PHP.

Pre-requisites :

Web server with PHP installed. No special extensions are needed for this tutorial. 
Ability to save files on the webserver (either upload, or save directly)