Searching XML Dataset with PHP 4

[overyde]

Hi,
Is it possible to search within an xml dataset using php 4.
I know PHP 5 has SOAP but I have not made the radical jump yet.

What I mean is as below:

<icecream>
  <type>
  Low Fat
    <flavour>
    Strawberry
    </flavour>
    <flavour>
    Vanilla
    </flavour>
  </type>
  <type>
  Full Cream
    <flavour>
    Strawberry
    </flavour>
    <flavour>
    Vanilla
    </flavour>
  </type>  
</icecream>

Then the php would be (not parsed correctly-only for theory)

$xmlresultset = "select * from icecream where type = fullcream"

while ($xmlresultset)
 {
   $flavour = $xmlresultset[flavour];
}

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[ggggus]

It would be a round about way of getting to it, but there is a function in php4 to handle xml. It's rather combersome, but I use it for some of my xml.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse-into-struct.php

xml_parse_into_struct function will create an array out of the xml database and then you can run through the array for the values you need.

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