gistfile1.txt

<?php

//connect to the xml and create an xml object from it
$session = curl_init('http://www.chinabuye.com/mivec/rss/data/apple.xml');
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement(curl_exec($session));

//craete the csv file
$apple = "apple.csv";
$handle = fopen($apple, 'a');

$data = array();
foreach ($xml->xpath("item") as $item){
	echo $item->name;
	echo $item->description;
	echo $item->sku;

}