Php function request

Dear php.net, I love php and am a keen developer in your language which I find handles most of my scripting want. But could I please request a few new functions to be added in a near future release: - A nice simple standalone function that with out to convert XML/HTML data into a dynamic array with a nice short name e.g. xml2array or something that would look like this: xml2array(xmlstring [,returnedarrayname]) and it would work like this: <?php $xml = "<name>bob</name><age>23</age><location>Wales, United Kingdom</location><name>steve</name><age>35</age><location>Canada</location> <name>simon</name><age>18</age><location>Washington DC, United States of America</location>"; $xmlarray = xml2array($xml); print_r($xmlarray); ?> which would return: Array([name] => Array("bob", "steve", "simon") [age] => Array("23", "35", "18") [location] => Array("Wales, United Kingdom", "Canada", "Washington DC, United States of America")); I know php already has a 'library' of functions to do this. But it'd be nice to have a simpler standalone function that doesnt require much code and your unlikely to forget how to use it. Also you could make a simmular xmlfile2array function to handle .xml and .html files. - A new library of patern matching function less complicated than regex that allows you to do the same thing only with less hard to remember syntax and that isnt so stressful to get right. I have been having to use alot of character by characters while loops to do this which takes a lot of time and code and space and bandwidth so this sort of new library would really be appreciated. - thanks mike.