Help with some simple regex.

So here's the deal.
I'm pulling some nice xml out of a DB, and storing it in a variable. I then want to use regex to break it apart. This is what it will look like...

//in the DB, 
<workplace>
<name>...</name>
<years>...</years>
</workplace>
<workplace>
...
</workplace> etc.

$xml  = mysql_query(...irrelevant...); 

PHP:

Now I really suck with regex, and I'm not sure how to go about this.
Basically, I want to be left with an associative array like so...

$array = array(1 => array('name' => '...', 'years' => '...'), 2 => etc...);

PHP:

How can I go about this, a point in the right direction would be perfectly fine.

 

Why not use SimpleXML? Does pretty much what you want. Except you get the results in a object, rather than an array.

www.php.net/simplexml_load_string

 

Damn dude, thanks. Much simpler.

 

Or xpath implementation in PHP.