In JavaScript or PHP, is there a method to analyze the elements in an XML file...

Philip

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...without knowing their tagnames? I'm trying to build a script that will return the data of a generic XML file. The catch is that the contents will be unknown, all that we know is that it is a valid XML file. So, for example lets say we have a simple xml file like so:

<XML HEADER>
<unknowntagname>
<unknowntagname>some data</unknowntagname>
<unknowntagname>some data</unknowntagname>
<unknowntagname>some data</unknowntagname>
</message>


the JavaScript or PHP will then store the data in an object like this:

unknowntagname[x].content;

normally you would use the getElementsByTagname(sometag) method, but we don't know the tag name.

any suggestions?
The catch is that it must be a web based language, Java is a capable of going on the web, but It would be much better if I could just have it done on a web language.
 
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