XML Parsing using PHP - node attributes

Hello, Im writing a web-app in php using the technique explained in the “XML Parsing using PHP” tutorials. The xml file is generated by another application so i cannot alter its structure.

My problem is that some of the information i need to display is stored as attributs e.g.


<notes>
  <notes name="headin">
    <notes name="sub-heding">
      <note name="note name">
        <text>
          note content here.
        </text>
      </note>
      <note name="note name">
        <text>
          note content here.
        </text>
      </note>
    <notes>
  </notes>
</notes>

is their a way to extract the attributes?