Transporter_ii

Ok, saying I'm not much of a programmer is an understatement, but I'm sitting here with a copy Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL 5, and a working script that I have been trying to modify unsuccessfully for a week now. To make it short, the script parses an XML file formatted like this: <CHOICES>A, B, C, D</CHOICES> And saves the values to an array like this: save value to "questions" array if this is a CHOICES tag if ($val[tag] == "CHOICES") { $questions[$questionNo]['choices'] = $val[value]; Note: later on in the script, it "explodes" the data: // split choices into "choices" array $choices = explode(", ", $questions[0]['choices']); I really want to format the XML like this: <CHOICE>A</CHOICE><CHOICE>B</CHOICE> etc. or like this: <CHOICEA>A</CHOICEA><CHOICEB>B</CHOICEB> etc. Is there a way to get data into the array the way I want to do it, but have the data in the array work like it did the way the script was originally structured. Every example I see on parsing an XML file with PHP, seems like it assumes only one set of tags in the XML structure for a certain element, but for what I'm wanting to do, this keeps making me do kludgey workarounds. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Transporter_ii