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<?php
class xml2array {
 
	function xml2array($xml) {
		if (is_string($xml)) {
			$this->dom = new DOMDocument;
			$this->dom->loadXml($xml);
		}
 
		return FALSE;
	}
 
	function _process($node) { 
		$occurance = array();
 
		foreach($node->childNodes as $child) {
			$occurance[$child->nodeName]++;
		}
 
		if($node->nodeType == XML_TEXT_NODE) { 
			$result = html_entity_decode(htmlentities($node->nodeValue, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'), 
                                     ENT_COMPAT,'ISO-8859-15');
		} 
		else {
			if($node->hasChildNodes()){
				$children = $node->childNodes;
 
				for($i=0; $i<$children->length; $i++) {
					$child = $children->item($i);
 
					if($child->nodeName != '#text') {
						if($occurance[$child->nodeName] > 1) {
							$result[$child->nodeName][] = $this->_process($child);
						}
						else {
							$result[$child->nodeName] = $this->_process($child);
						}
					}
					else if ($child->nodeName == '#text') {
						$text = $this->_process($child);
 
						if (trim($text) != '') {
							$result[$child->nodeName] = $this->_process($child);
						}
					}
				}
			} 
 
			if($node->hasAttributes()) { 
				$attributes = $node->attributes;
 
				if(!is_null($attributes)) {
					foreach ($attributes as $key => $attr) {
						$result["@".$attr->name] = $attr->value;
					}
				}
			}
		}
 
		return $result;
	}
 
	function getResult() {
		return $this->_process($this->dom);
	}
}
?>

<?php
	$obj = new xml2array($XML_string);
	$XML_array = $obj->getResult();
?>