Basic Management of RSS Fedd

[ToonMariner]

need some fast help with manipulating xml files.

 

I have an rss feed like so

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

<?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="/xml/xsl/nolsol.xsl" ?>

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
	<title>Mysite</title>
	<link>http://www.mysite.co.uk/news</link>
	<feed>http://www.mysite.co.uk/xml/news.xml</feed>
	<description>News from mysite</description>
	<category>Sport</category>
	<copyright>2007 mysite. All rights reserved.</copyright>
	<language>en</language>
	<managingEditor>me@mysite.co.uk</managingEditor>
	<item>
		<title>50 Years and Still Young</title>
		<link>http://www.mysite.co.uk/news/2007/1/1</link>
		<description>mysite are clebrating 50 years.</description>
		<pubDate>1 Jan 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<author>Rob Charlton</author>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mysite.co.uk/news/2007/1/1</guid>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Footy Rules</title>
		<link>http://www.www.waring-netts.co.uk/news/2006/10/25</link>
		<description>Football is the biggest game on earth.</description>
		<pubDate>25 Oct 2006 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<author>Someone</author>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mysite.co.uk/news/2006/10/25</guid>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>A New House for Gran</title>
		<link>http://www.mysite.co.uk/news/2006/10/15</link>
		<description>Gran has a new house.</description>
		<pubDate>15 Oct 2006 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<author>Mum</author>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mysite.co.uk/news/2006/10/15</guid>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

 

All I need to do is add a new child node 'item' and if the number of childnodes of channel called item is greater than 50 remove them.

 

here is what I have tried so far with limited (no) success....

 

$file	=	$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/xml/test.xml';
$dom	=	domxml_open_file($file);

$elements	=	$dom->get_elements_by_tagname ('item');

$nonodes	=	count($elements);

if	(
$nonodes	>	4
)
{
$remove	=	$elements[$nonodes - 1];
$child	=	$dom->dump_node($remove);
}

$element	=	$elements[0];

$newnode = $element->insert_before($element, $element);
$children = $newnode->children();
$attr = $children[1]->set_attribute("align", "left");



$xmlfile = $dom->dump_mem(true);
echo htmlentities($xmlfile);

 

now all that is doing is replacing the first item node with a line!!!!!

 

I need some kind fo loop to remove child nodes as there could be a situation where a few nodes get added manually so teh script needs to remove all nodes after the 50th one.

 

If anyone can help I woudl be very greatful.

[ToonMariner]

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