php5 class structure with CI?

[eluser]nikefido[/eluser]
Hi -

I am developing a few (aka 2) classes that will read through and send an XML file -

Anyway, I'm using simpleXML, the server has php5 which will support it...

To the point:

my class right now is handled in the php5 fashion (declaring private, public or protected for all variables and functions as well a constructor function).

My question is - can I make this play "nice" with code igniter despite it being written in php5 class?

(I suppose it's easy enough to convert it to a php4 object...)

Any thoughts?