XML news from moreover

Goal: To periodically download all moreover news and insert them into a db so users can later pick from free form searches or categories and include those in a "mypage" kind of deal. Moreover doesn't care as long as I give credit where credit is due, keep the links live, and don't include actual article text. Facts: I have researched moreover's XML format which is very logical and predictable and would seem easy to parse and insert into a db. Other Facts: No idea where to go. I haven't done any XML, do I need to use the xml parser for this? Would it be faster? It seems like I could just search with get ( They have a distinct URL for each category and format ) and do an insert in to the db for the different fields. Sockets maybe? Really clueless on where to start here. I have only used php to generate pages. Never to go get some, process them, and store them. -- Lewis Bergman Texas Communications 4309 Maple St. Abilene, TX 79602 915-695-6962