XML parsing conundrum

Question

UPDATE: I\'ve reworked the question, to show progress I\'ve made, and maybe make it easier to answer.

UPDATE 2: I\'ve added another value to the XML. Extension avail

Answer 1

I prefer DOM DOcument and XPath myself so his is what I'd do...

$xml = '\path\to\your\file.xml';
$doc = new DOMDocument( '1.0', 'UTF-8' );
$doc->load( $xml );

$dxpath = new DOMXPath( $doc );
$items = $dxpath->query( '//Item' );

$db = new PDO( 'mysql:dbname=YOURDB:host=YOURHOST', $DBUSER, $DBPASS );
$ins = $db->prepare('
                    INSERT INTO ur_table
                    ( `platform` , `name` , `title` , `path` )
                    VALUES
                    ( :platform , :name , :title , :path );
                    ');

foreach( $items as $item )
{
    $ins->bindValue( ':platform'     , $item->getElementsByTagName( 'PlatForm' )->item(0)->nodeValue , PDO::PARAM_STR );
    $ins->bindValue( ':name'         , $item->getElementsByTagName( 'Name' )->item(0)->nodeValue     , PDO::PARAM_STR );
    $ins->bindValue( ':title'        , $item->getElementsByTagName( 'Title' )->item(0)->nodeValue    , PDO::PARAM_STR );
    $ins->bindValue( ':DownloadPath' , $item->getElementsByTagName( 'PlatForm' )->item(0)->nodeValue , PDO::PARAM_STR );
    $ins->execute();
}

No need for stripslashes and what not - it will handle all taht for you.