?php 
$xml=XML
?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> 
cars> 
car id="1">Volvo/car> 
car id="2">BMW/car> 
car id="3">Saab/car> 
/cars> 
XML;
$sxe=new SimpleXMLElement($xml); 
echo $sxe->getName() . "br>"; 
foreach ($sxe->children() as $child) 
{ 
echo $child->getName() . "br>"; 
} 
?>

getName();