Parse XML file to array

I have a problem parsing external XML files to PHP array.
Structure of XML file is like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/DTD/svg10.dtd">
<svg style="shape-rendering:geometricPrecision;" xml:space="preserve"  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 530 900" x="0px" y="0px" width="530px" height="900px">
<g font-family="'sans-serif">
<text x="0" y="76" font-size="14">text content</text>
<text x="0" y="76" font-size="14">text content</text>
<text x="0" y="76" font-size="14">text content</text>
<text x="0" y="76" font-size="14">text content</text>
<rect width="530" height="900" x="0" y="0" fill="white" fill-opacity="0" /></g></svg>

Code (markup):

I'm trying to get array of "text" elements like:

Array
(
    [0] => text content
    [1] => text content
    [2] => text content
    [3] => text content
)

PHP:

I've tried few different ways but of some reason I have a problem to access to elements I want. The only working solution I found was:

$xmlstring = file_get_contents("xmlfile.php?ID=someId");
$xml = new simpleXml2Array( $xmlstring, null );
$xmlarray = $xml->arr[g][0][content][text];

$values = array();
for( $i= 0 ; $i < count($xmlarray) ; $i++ ) {
        $values[] = $xmlarray[$i][content];
}

print_r( $values );

Code (markup):

It's using "simpleXml2Array" class but I'd like to avoid it and get values I want using foreach loop. I'm looking for the most simple and easy solution.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php
may be simple enough to parse your SVG ?

 

@hdewantara has it right, domdocument would be WAY better suited to this. I've never even seen that simplexml2array nonsense -- doesn't look good.

That way you'd have a DOM, so use it:

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('xmlfile.php?ID=someId');
$textElements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('text');
$values = [];
foreach ($textElements as $text) $values[] = $text->textContent;
echo '<pre>', print_r($values), '</pre>';

Code (markup):

Though depending on what you wanted to do with those texts, I may or may not copy them to that array since, well... the nodeList returned by getElementsByTagName is traversable so...

Basically once you have a domdocument, you can access it's DOM just like you were in JavaScript.