pelusium

<?php

// Open the XML
$handle = fopen('file.xml', 'r');

// Get the nodestring incrementally from the xml file by defining a callback
// In this case using a anon function.
nodeStringFromXMLFile($handle, '<item>', '</item>', function($nodeText){
    // Transform the XMLString into an array and 
    print_r(getArrayFromXMLString($nodeText));