Super Basic PHP XML Parser

gistfile1.php

/**
 * Sometimes you don't want a giant library to deal with simple XML
 *
 * @param $tag - the XML tag you want the contents of 
 *    - nested elements can be fetched using '>'. ex: 'Location>Address'
 * @param $xmlStr - the XML
 */
function xmlGetItem($tag, $xmlStr){
	$xmlStr = str_replace("\n", '', $xmlStr);
	if(strstr($tag, '>')){
		$pieces = split('>', $tag);
		$exteriorTag = array_shift($pieces);
		return xmlGetItem(join('>', $pieces), array_pop(xmlGetItem($exteriorTag, $xmlStr)));

	} else {
		$regex = '/<' . $tag . '>(.*?)<\/'. $tag .'>/';
		preg_match_all($regex, $xmlStr, $matches);
		return($matches[1]);
	}
}