How do I create variables from XML data in PHP?

Question

Been trying to figure this out for a short while now but having now luck, for example I have an external xml document like this:

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Answer 1

$str = "your xml";

$xml = simplexml_load_string($str);
$result = array();
foreach ($xml->positions as $pos) {
    foreach ($pos->position as $p) {
        $element = (string)$p[0];
        $result[$element] = $element;
    }
}

var_dump($result);