On Wednesday 16 April 2003 10:33 pm, I wrote: [...] > Very strange. At this point it's confusing enough that I'm convinced I'm > just missing something stupid... [...] And anyone want to bet that the "something stupid" in question is "xml_set_object"?.... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-set-object.php The problem I'm seeing is described exactly in the user comments. Looks like I need to remember to call xml_set_object, but make sure I do it OUTSIDE of the class constructor. Since at this point that seems to be the only problem I'm having getting the XML parsing functional in the real world, I should be back to posting real usable code again regularly in short order...