Object assignment

I'm having trouble creating objects with DOMXML. As I loop through a level of nodes, I'm creating a new element based on the array's key name. The XML might look like this: <rootElement> <record id="1">Value 1</record> <record id="2">Value 2</record> </rootElement> So I'd be doing this with DOMXML in a loop: $thisChild = $doc->create_element($key); $thisChild = $ancestor->append_child($thisChild); Where $key is 'record' in this example, and $ancestor is 'rootElement', which is carried along in the function. The problem that when I reach the second element by the same name, and in the same node level, I'm overwriting the $thisChild object that I just created. How can I dynamically name these objects so that I can have an indeterminate number of elements by the same name, in the same level? Source: http://www.healthtvchannel.org/test/php2xml.phps Thanks, -- Matt Grimm Web Developer The Health TV Channel, Inc. (a non - profit organization) 3820 Lake Otis Parkway Anchorage, AK 99508 907.770.6200 ext. 686 907.336.6205 (fax) E-mail: mgrimm@healthtvchannel.org Web: www.healthtvchannel.org