Over at the PHP-Tools Blog is a new post that reads, “Today, Frank and I released the first version of XJConf For PHP. This is a port of the original XJConf I developed for Java."

According to the author, XJConf allows you to map complex XML documents to data structures by defining the mapping rules in a simple XML-based language. You can define the type for each tag (objects, arrays, primitives) as well as how its attributes, child elements and enclosed character data should be treated. When creating objects, you can also define the setter methods to nest the objects.

If you want to give XJConf For PHP a try, you can get it via the PEAR channel or from SVN here.