Alternatives to simpleXML for parsing xml files with PHP?

Obviously there's a ton of different way to process XML both as PHP extensions and userspace librairies. The problem is they are all much much more complicated than SimpleXML and nowhere as fast for random access.

You can use the DOM extension. It has the advantage many people are already familiar with DOM (coming from e.g. Javascript). Of course, DOM is very painful.

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