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First, create xml document like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<datas>
  <cars> 
    <car>
      <manufacture country="japan">Honda</manufacture>
	  <type>Honda Jazz</type>
    </car>
    <car>
      <manufacture country="korea">Nissan</manufacture>
	  <type>Nissan Livina</type>
    </car>	
  </cars>
</datas>

Save as "cars.xml" within www/test/xml. Then create reader like this:

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("cars.xml") 
       or die("Error: Cannot create object");
	   
foreach($xml->children() as $cars){
	foreach($cars->children() as $car => $data){
	  echo $data->manufacture['country'];
	  echo "<br />";
	}
}

?>

As you see, to read attribute value, we can use such as $data->manufacture['country'].