function xml2array($originalXML, $attributes=true)
{
$xmlArray = array();
$search = $attributes ? '|<((\S+)(.*))\s*>(.*)</\2>|Ums' : '|<((\S+)()).*>(.*)</\2>|Ums';
// normalize data
$xml = preg_replace('|>\s*<|', ">\n<", $originalXML); // one tag per line
$xml = preg_replace('|<\?.*\?>|', '', $xml); // remove XML declarations
$xml = preg_replace('|<(\S+?)(.*)/>|U', '<$1$2></$1>', $xml); //Expand singletons
if (! preg_match_all($search, $xml, $xmlMatches))
return trim($originalXML); // bail out - no XML found
foreach ($xmlMatches[1] as $index => $key)
{
if (! isset($xmlArray[$key])) $xmlArray[$key] = array();
$xmlArray[$key][] = xml2array($xmlMatches[4][$index], $attributes);
}
return $xmlArray;
}