?php 
$note=XML
note> 
to>Tove/to> 
from>Jani/from> 
heading>Reminder/heading> 
body>Don't forget me this weekend!/body> 
/note> 
XML;
$xml=simplexml_load_string($note); 
foreach ($xml->children() as $child) 
{ 
echo "Child node: " . $child . "br>"; 
} 
?>

children( _ns,is_prefix_ );

?php 
$note=XML 
note> 
to>Tove/to> 
from>Jani/from> 
heading>Reminder/heading> 
body>span>Important!/span> Don't forget me this weekend!/body> 
/note> 
XML;
$xml=simplexml_load_string($note); 
foreach ($xml->body[0]->children() as $child) 
{ 
echo "Child node: " . $child . "br>"; 
} 
?>