Parsing XML into Array

Question

So i have this XML structure:

Answer 1

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$fields = array();
foreach ($xml->field as $f) {
    $f = (array) $f->attributes();
    $fields[] = $f['@attributes'];
}

Answer 2

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadXML($xml);
$fields = $dom->getElementsByTagName('field');
$arr = array();
foreach ($fields as $field) {
  $arr[] = array(
    'name' => $field->getAttribute('name'),
    'label' => $field->getAttribute('label');
    'size' => $field->getAttribute('size'),
  );
}