- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$xml = '<artists page="1" perPage="100" totalPages="253081" total="25308020">
<artist>
<name>David Bowie</name>
<playcount>151727648</playcount>
<listeners>3969219</listeners>
<mbid>5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50</mbid>
<url>http://www.last.fm/music/David+Bowie</url>
<streamable>0</streamable>
<image size="small">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/34s/937d62bb145040b9b709319c1e680037.png
</image>
<image size="medium">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/64s/937d62bb145040b9b709319c1e680037.png
</image>
<image size="large">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/174s/937d62bb145040b9b709319c1e680037.png
</image>
<image size="extralarge">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/300x300/937d62bb145040b9b709319c1e680037.png
</image>
<image size="mega">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/937d62bb145040b9b709319c1e680037.png
</image>
</artist>
<artist>
<name>The Beatles</name>
<playcount>456495139</playcount>
<listeners>3986977</listeners>
<mbid>b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d</mbid>
<url>http://www.last.fm/music/The+Beatles</url>
<streamable>0</streamable>
<image size="small">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/34s/55efc33bcd234fd8a1d65b3d49bf9661.png
</image>
<image size="medium">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/64s/55efc33bcd234fd8a1d65b3d49bf9661.png
</image>
<image size="large">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/174s/55efc33bcd234fd8a1d65b3d49bf9661.png
</image>
<image size="extralarge">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/300x300/55efc33bcd234fd8a1d65b3d49bf9661.png
</image>
<image size="mega">
http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/55efc33bcd234fd8a1d65b3d49bf9661.png
</image>
</artist>
</artists>';
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($xml, LIBXML_PARSEHUGE);
$artists = $doc->getElementsByTagName('artist');
foreach($artists as $artist) {
$name = $artist>getElementsByTagName('name')->item(0)->nodeValue;
var_dump($name);
}