Can't get simplexml's xpath to return anything from flickr's photo set RSS feed

Consider the following:

<?php
$feed_url = "http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157603482891441&nsid=14571714@N08&lang=en-us";
$flickr_xml = simplexml_load_file($feed_url);


$something = $flickr_xml->xpath('/feed');


print_r($something);
?>

If I look at the XML in the feed above, the first element its “feed”. So, that xpath expression should return something, but it doesn’t.

In fact, xpath(’/’) doesn’t return anything either. Anyone know why this is?