XML and PHP challenge!

[catoha]

Hi. I'm having a small challenge.
Based om this simplified xml file I want to present only two articles per. categori

<articles>
<article>
<category></category>
<title></title>
<text></text>
</article>
</articles>

The xml is made so every new article comes on top, so the newest articles are always on the top.

So what I want to do is to say to php that you will show every article but only two for each category.

Does anyone have a simple solution to this issue?

Kind regards, Cato

[bpat1434]

If you're not going to really care about the newest items, then I'd say rework your XML so that you group the articles by Category, then list them in most recent fashion. Then you can use either the extension DOMXML or the built-in XML Parser (in PHP5) to grab each category, and two articles per category. Since within each category they'd be listed from newest to oldest (most recent, to least recent) then you wouldn't need to sort anything either.