I'm trying to work out how to iterate though a returned SimpleXML object.

I'm using a toolkit called Tarzan AWS, which connects to Amazon Web Services (SimpleDB, S3, EC2, etc). I'm specifically using SimpleDB.

I can put data into the Amazon SimpleDB service, and I can get it back. I just don't know how to handle the SimpleXML object that is returned.

The Tarzan AWS documentation says this:

Look at the response to navigate through the headers and body of the response. Note that this is an object, not an array, and that the body is a SimpleXML object.

Here's a sample of the returned SimpleXML object:

 [body] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [QueryWithAttributesResult] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [Item] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                (
                                    [Name] => message12413344443260
                                    [Attribute] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => active
                                                    [Value] => 1
                                                )

                                            [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => user
                                                    [Value] => john
                                                )

                                            [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => message
                                                    [Value] => This is a message.
                                                )

                                            [3] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => time
                                                    [Value] => 1241334444
                                                )

                                            [4] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => id
                                                    [Value] => 12413344443260
                                                )

                                            [5] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => ip
                                                    [Value] => 10.10.10.1
                                                )

                                        )

                                )

                            [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                (
                                    [Name] => message12413346907303
                                    [Attribute] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => active
                                                    [Value] => 1
                                                )

                                            [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => user
                                                    [Value] => fred
                                                )

                                            [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => message
                                                    [Value] => This is another message
                                                )

                                            [3] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => time
                                                    [Value] => 1241334690
                                                )

                                            [4] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => id
                                                    [Value] => 12413346907303
                                                )

                                            [5] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                                (
                                                    [Name] => ip
                                                    [Value] => 10.10.10.2
                                                )

                                        )

                                )

                        )

So what code do I need to get through each of the object items? I'd like to loop through each of them and handle it like a returned mySQL query. For example, I can query SimpleDB and then loop though the SimpleXML so I can display the results on the page.

Alternatively, how do you turn the whole shebang into an array?

I'm new to SimpleXML, so I apologise if my questions aren't specific enough.