<s>
SimpleXML	B-Language
is	O
a	O
PHP	B-Application
extension	O
that	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
easily	O
manipulate/use	O
XML	B-Protocol
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
introduced	O
in	O
PHP	B-Application
5	O
as	O
an	O
object	B-Application
oriented	I-Application
approach	O
to	O
the	O
XML	B-General_Concept
DOM	I-General_Concept
providing	O
an	O
object	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
processed	O
with	O
normal	O
property	O
selectors	O
and	O
array	O
iterators	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
represents	O
an	O
easy	O
way	O
of	O
getting	O
an	O
element	O
's	O
attributes	O
and	O
textual	O
content	O
if	O
you	O
know	O
the	O
XML	B-Protocol
document	I-Protocol
's	O
structure	O
or	O
layout	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compared	O
to	O
DOM	B-General_Concept
or	O
the	O
Expat	B-Language
parser	O
,	O
SimpleXML	B-Language
takes	O
a	O
fewer	O
lines	O
of	O
code	O
to	O
read	O
text	O
data	O
from	O
an	O
element	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
possible	O
to	O
suppress	O
all	O
XML	B-Protocol
errors	O
when	O
loading	O
the	O
document	O
and	O
then	O
iterate	O
over	O
the	O
errors	O
.	O
</s>
