Parsing an XML return from a POST

Hi List I am working owards completing a rather urgent project for one of our clients. There is a requirement to send a request to a server and I now have that working using cURL, thanks to help from this list. I now have the responses coming back as an XML response. What I need to do is to parse the XML response and break it up into either an array or variables so I can pass the returned responses back to a calling process. I have spent most of last night and today looking at XML parsing and now am totally confused. Some testing I have done suggests that SimpleXML is not the way to go however I am open to suggestions if it might be an answer. I would appreciate any help or advice on how to parse this XML response and break it up into either an array or individual variables. I have included a sample response from the server below. A few points to be aware of, 1) In the fares section there could be any number of fares however each fare will have a fareID and then the fareBases child. 2) In the tarifs section there could be any number of tarifs however each tarif will have a tarifId and then 1 or more fareXrefs. 3) In the vcrSummary section there could be 1 or more vcr entries 4) The response comes back as one long string and I have formatted this to make it a little easier to read. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?ypsilon RNGSchema="fareResponse.rnc" type="compact"?> <fareResponse cntTarifs="122" offset="0"> <fares> <fare fareId="11429927" fareType="PUB" checked="false" class="V" depApt="SYD" dstApt="LON" paxType="ADT" vcr="OS" cos="E" yyFare="false" avail="false"> <fareBases> <fareBase pax="ADT">VLOX2</fareBase> <fareBase pax="CHD">VLOX2</fareBase> <fareBase pax="INF">VLOX2</fareBase> </fareBases> </fare> <fare fareId="11429924" fareType="PUB" checked="false" class="M" depApt="SYD" dstApt="LON" paxType="ADT" vcr="OS" cos="E" yyFare="false" avail="false"> <fareBases> <fareBase pax="ADT">MLOW2</fareBase> <fareBase pax="CHD">MLOW2</fareBase> <fareBase pax="INF">MLOW2</fareBase> </fareBases> </fare> </fares> <tarifs currency="USD"> <tarif tarifId="11429927" adtBuy="675.07" adtSell="675.07" chdBuy="675.07" chdSell="675.07" infBuy="675.07" infSell="675.07" topCar="false" topHotel="false"> <fareXRefs> <fareXRef>11429927</fareXRef> </fareXRefs> </tarif> <tarif tarifId="11429926" adtBuy="714.83" adtSell="714.83" chdBuy="714.83" chdSell="714.83" infBuy="714.83" infSell="714.83" topCar="false" topHotel="false"> <fareXRefs> <fareXRef>11429926</fareXRef> </fareXRefs> </tarif> </tarifs> <taxes currency="USD"> <tax vcr="OS">201.52</tax> </taxes> <vcrSummary> <vcr minPrice="1667" maxPrice="1667" totalTarifs="1" currency="USD">AA</vcr> <vcr minPrice="1374" maxPrice="4704" totalTarifs="2" currency="USD">PR</vcr> </vcrSummary> </fareResponse> I would certainly appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance. Regards, Richard Luckhurst Product Development Exodus Systems - Sydney, Australia. rluckhurst@resmaster.com