XML parsing help... getting the name of the parent node

[Syco54645]

I am beating my head off the pavement here trying to get the name of the parent node.  I tried using an array_push, but being that only the startElement can accept a third parameter (or so it seems) that will not work.

 

This is an example of my xml

 

<blah>
   <all_station_numbers>
      <id2>
         <stationId>411</stationId>
         <subStationId>2</subStationId>
         <commonName>9652</commonName>
         <service>EMS</service>
         <memberId>29</memberId>
         <updated>2007-08-17 09:50:25</updated>
         <groupid>9</groupid>
      </id2>
      <id4>
         <stationId>142</stationId>
         <subStationId>2</subStationId>
         <commonName>7541</commonName>
         <service>POLICE</service>
         <memberId>29</memberId>
         <updated>2007-08-17 09:50:41</updated>
         <groupid>9</groupid>
      </id4>
   </all_station_numbers>
</blah>

 

 

And the php that I am working with trying to parse this.

 

<?php
    function data($parser, $data){
        //echo $data;
        if(strtolower($data)==strtolower($_POST['quick']))
        {
            echo "we got a match<br>";
        }
    }
    
    function startElement($parser, $data, $ary){
        array_push($ary, $data);
    }
    
    function endElement($parser, $data){
        
    }
    
    $starttimer = time()+microtime();

    $file = "db.xml";
    
    $ary=array();
    
    $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
    
    xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
    
    xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "data");
    
    $fp = fopen($file, "r");
    
    $data = fread($fp, 80000);
    
    if(!(xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)))){
        die("Error on line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser));
    }
    
    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
    
    fclose($fp);
    
    
    $stoptimer = time()+microtime();

    $timer = round($stoptimer-$starttimer,4);

    echo "Search completed in $timer seconds.";
?> 

 

This xml is a dump of my database that I would like to run a quicksearch on.  All_station_numbers is the table and id2, id3, etc is the unique id of each row.  I need this information to know what kind of link to present the user with when a result is found.  I have used the parsing in .net and it had something like parent(element), does php have anything like this?  All of my searches have returned nothing.