--- inc.rss2array.php.orig	2005-02-06 23:05:38.000000000 -0500
+++ inc.rss2array.php	2005-02-06 23:07:03.000000000 -0500
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
     # example usage:
     #
     #       require("inc.rss2array.php");
-    #       $rss_array = rss2array("http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml");
+    #       $feed = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml";
+    #       $feed = "/path/to/feed.rss";
+    #       $rss_array = rss2array($feed);
     #       print "<pre>";
     #       print_r($rss_array);
     #       print "</pre>";
@@ -140,6 +142,36 @@
 
         }
 
+        # $url may be a file on the filesystem
+
+        elseif (is_file($url)) {
+
+            $fh = fopen($url,"r");
+            $xml = fread($fh,filesize($url));
+            fclose($fh);
+            #
+            # create the parser
+            #
+
+            $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
+
+            xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
+            xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
+
+            #
+            # parse!
+            #
+
+            xml_parse($xml_parser, trim($xml), true) or $rss2array_globals[errors][] = xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)) . " at line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser);
+
+            #
+            # free parser
+            #
+
+            xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
+
+        }
+
         #
         # Feed url looks wrong
         #