emfield_request_xml xml parsing routine problem

Darn, my post ate some tags! Here it is again (see original for attachments).

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The XML parsing routine embedded in the "emfield_request_xml" function in emfield.module is not successfully parsing some xml files (or at least not properly).

To see what I mean here is a link to an XML file for an video on archive.org...

http://ia331406.us.archive.org/1/items/2006MacNorwalkPerformance/2006Mac...

Now attached (samplereturn) is a print_r of the result coming back from emfield_request_xml.

In case that is hard to decipher I'm also attaching a part of a krumo screenshot courtesy of devel module...

Anyway, hopefully it is clear what is happening? The source xml has a single top level element "<files>" with no attributes and only an array of "<file>" elements embedded. But the way emfield_request_xml is returning the array, it has flattened it so there is a "<files>" array item, but the "<file>" array items are not sub elements of this array, but rather same level. Worse it has put the first file in the array under the "<files>" array element, but only the first property inside of it, then it _repeats_ that element again.

Anyway, I'll try to debug the xml parsing code, but perhaps someone familiar with that code can see the problem?