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I give up. I expressly requested for code suggestions but got links to .... I basically do not know. 
 
anyway, after a long evening, I managed to get some code from Daniweb. Thanks all who contributed.
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I give up. I expressly requested for code suggestions but got links to .... I basically do not know.

anyway, after a long evening, I managed to get some code from Daniweb. Thanks all who contributed.

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I have what is routine to me in VB but have not been able to accomplish in PHP. 
Can someone please give me some code suggestion on how to write the following lines of string to an XML file as per below? 
 
The strings: 
Pat,Rafter,30,Aussie 
Boris,Becker,17,German 
Paul,Raddy,28,Russian 
 
The XML 
&lt;doc&gt; 
&lt;Record&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;fname&gt;Pat&lt;/fname&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;lname&gt;Rafter&lt;/lname&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;magicno&gt;30&lt;/magicno&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;village&gt;Aussie&lt;/village&gt; 
&lt;/Record&gt; 
&lt;Record&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;fname&gt;Boris&lt;/fname&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;lname&gt;Becker&lt;/lname&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;magicno&gt;17&lt;/magicno&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;village&gt;German&lt;/village&gt; 
&lt;/Record&gt; 
&lt;Record&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;fname&gt;Paul&lt;/fname&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;lname&gt;Raddy&lt;/lname&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;magicno&gt;28&lt;/magicno&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;village&gt;Russian&lt;/village&gt; 
&lt;/Record&gt; 
&lt;/doc&gt;
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I have what is routine to me in VB but have not been able to accomplish in PHP.
Can someone please give me some code suggestion on how to write the following lines of string to an XML file as per below?

The strings:
Pat,Rafter,30,Aussie
Boris,Becker,17,German
Paul,Raddy,28,Russian

The XML
<doc>
<Record>
 <fname>Pat</fname>
 <lname>Rafter</lname>
 <magicno>30</magicno>
 <village>Aussie</village>
</Record>
<Record>
 <fname>Boris</fname>
 <lname>Becker</lname>
 <magicno>17</magicno>
 <village>German</village>
</Record>
<Record>
 <fname>Paul</fname>
 <lname>Raddy</lname>
 <magicno>28</magicno>
 <village>Russian</village>
</Record>
</doc>

Write xml from string

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