“The PHP scripting language’s XML support has a few gaps,
but you can fill them with Java objects in a pinch. In this
article, find out what XML tools are available now for PHP
developers looking to craft XML projects, and find out how to
access Java objects until the PHP tool set matures.“
“PHP often has been one of the first languages to implement new
technologies. In the case of XML, PHP first added support back in
version 3.06, which was released in December 1998….”
“The PHP team is currently working on adding support for a DOM
extension using the GNOME Project’s libxml (which uses the W3C’s
XML parser), which can turn any XML file into a DOM object tree and
manipulate that tree. Experimental code is already in PHP 4, but it
is scarce (as of PHP 4 RC1).”