Also? Was griping at the complexity of editing - to say nothing of writing - an RSS parser in PHP. Found
handy-dandy Zend tutorial. Went "... and why did my teacher insist on doing it the hard way?"
A: Because the simplexml...() library functions appeared in PHP 5. Vergil runs PHP 4. D'oh.
I can see why they chose to encapsulate it, it isn't pretty...