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Jane Austen
Jane Austen's most popular work.



Ernest Hemingway
The masterpiece that launched Hemingway's career.

$xml=simplexml_load_file("book.xml");echo "

";
var_dump($ xml);
?>

object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) {
["book"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (3) {
["title"]=>
string(19) "Pride and Prejudice"
["author"]=>
string(11) "Jane Austen"
["description"]=>
string(32) "Jane Austen's most popular work."
}
[1]=>
object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (3) {
                                                                                                                                                                            description"]=>
string(46) "Alberto Moravia's classic psyhcological novel."
}
[2]=>
object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (3) {
["title"]=>
string(18) "The Sun Also Rises"
["author"]=>
string(16) "Ernest Hemingway"
["description" ]=>
string(49) "The masterpiece that launched Hemingway's career."
}
}
}