Parsing .xml

Hi,

I just read "Processing XML with PHP" by Timothy Boronczyk and tried it myself. It works good until I have an empty field.

For example:
<language type="interpreted">
<item>languagea</item>
<item></item>
<item>languageb</item>
</language>

Using the functions from the turorial I get an array with only two entries, but I also need the empty one. It seems as if expat just doesn't see this field?

What could I do to get this (empty) entry into my array?

Thank you in advance,

Mario