Simplexml is giving me the wrong results

PedroS

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I have a simple xml below:\[code\]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><catalogue> <category name="textbook" id="100" parent="books"> <product id="20000"> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> <genre>Computer</genre> <price>44.95</price> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description> </product> <product id="20001"> <author>Gambardellas, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> <genre>Computer</genre> <price>44.95</price> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description> </product> </category> <category name="fiction" id="101" parent="books"> <product id="2001"> <author>Ralls, Kim</author> <title>Midnight Rain</title> <genre>Fantasy</genre> <type>Fiction</type> <price>5.95</price> <publish_date>2000-12-16</publish_date> <description>A former architect battles corporate zombies, an evil sorceress, and her own childhood to become queen of the world.</description> </product> </category></catalogue>\[/code\]I am using php simplexml library to parse it as follows: (note there are two category nodes. The first category contains two 'product' children. My aim is to get an array that contains those two children of first 'category'\[code\]$xml = simplexml_load_file($xml_file) or die ("unable to load XML File!".$xml_file);//for each product, print out info$cat = array();foreach($xml->category as $category){ if($category['id'] == 100) { $cat = $category; break; }}$prod_arr = $category->product;\[/code\]Here is the problem. I am expecting an array with two products children but its only returning one product. What am I doing wrong or is this a php bug? Please help!
 
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