Handeling POST without proper name/value

I first posted this message to the general mailing list but nobody was able to help me. Hopefully somebody in here can give me a little more insight in to what is going on and how to fix it. I am trying to get Macromedia Flash 5 to talk to PHP using a method predefined in flash's action script called XML.send. What it does is take an XML object that you created and sends it to a script via a POST method, however MM in all of there wisdom don't assign a name to the value. What PHP does when it encounters this is try to parse it like a normal name=value POST. So if flash sends an XML doc that looks like this: <TESTING value_1="This is a test" value_2="1" /> PHP thinks the name is : <TESTING_value_1 and the value is: "This is a test" value_2="1" /> Is there any way of manually assigning this value to a variable. I have tried something like this without any luck: $fd = fopen ("php://stdin", "r"); $val = fread ($fd, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["CONTENT_LENGTH"]); fclose ($fd); I would greatly appreciate any help that can be offered. Thanks in advance! Setup: PHP: 4.0.3pl1 Apache: 1.3.9 -- Mike Moulton -- mike@meltmedia.com