simplexml parsing fails if only one item

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
Do you have to use this library? Do you use PHP4 or PHP5?
If you have access to PHP5 you could use the SimpleXML class:

Code:

$this->load->helper('security');

$xmlRaw = file_get_contents($filename);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlRaw);
foreach ($xml->ARTICLE as $article)
{
        $id = xss_clean($article['ID']);
        $posting_date = xss_clean($article['POSTING_DATE']);
        ...                
}

I just tried it with one and several ARTICLE entries and it worked.