XML Help?

Hello all... this should be pretty simple. I'm fairly new to XML, and having trouble getting the following XML structure into an array. I basically want one array structured something like:

array[group1][item1, item2, etc...]

...where the various attributes of item1, item2, etc are accessible, something like:

array[0][1].name
array[0][1].start
etc...

Anyway, this is my XML file - I've tried parsing it a million different ways, but I can't seem to get the data into an array the way I want:


ActionScript Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <sample> <group1>    <item name="name 1" start="1778" end="1824"/>    <item name="name 2" start="1926" end="1990"/>    <item name="name 3" start="1990" end="2010"/>    <item name="name 4" start="2010" end="2010"/>   </group1> <group2>    <item name="name 1" start="1920" end="1962"/>   </group2> <group3>    <item name="name 1" start="1926" end="1990"/>    <item name="name 2" start="1776" end="1780"/>    <item name="name 3" start="1828" end="1860"/>   </group3> <group4>    <item name="name 1" start="1926" end="1990"/>    <item name="name 2" start="1856" end="1922"/>    <item name="name 3" start="2010" end="2010"/></group4> </sample>
Any help would be awesome... if I see another "undefined" in my output window I'm gonna kill myself!

Thanks in advance.