php xml parser -> Table or OPTION from SELECT

Question

I am looking for a way to parse something like this:

<xml>
    <data>
        <name>zyx</name>
        <value>xyz<value>
    </data>
    <data>
        <name>cba</name>
        <value>abc</value>
    </data>
</xml>

And turn it into this:

<SELECT>
      <OPTION VALUE="xyz">zyx</OPTION>
      <OPTION VALUE="abc">cba</OPTION>
</SELECT>

Using only php so that if a client was to look into my source code they would only see the select options instead of a js parser (which looks confusing and displays the location of the xml file being parsed. Is there a way to do this with php? and How? Using Variable Inputs?

function select($tid, $t, $xml, $name, $iid, $elname, $vname, $nname)
{

    $file = file_get_contents("modules/xml/$xml.xml");
    $select = new SimpleXMLElement($file);

    return "
        <TR>
      <TD ID=\"$tid\">
         &nbsp;$t&nbsp;
        </TD>
        <TD ID=\"$tid\">
        <SELECT NAME=\"$name\">";
   foreach($select->$elname as $options)
   {
   return"
   <OPTION VALUE=\"$OPTIONs->value\">
      $OPTIONs->name
   </OPTION>\n";
   }
        return
}

Answer 1

Using the example for SimpleXMLElement() at http://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php

$xml = "
 <xml>
  <data>
   <name>zyx</name>
   <value>xyz</value>
  </data>
  <data>
   <name>cba</name>
   <value>abc</value>
  </data>
 </xml>";

$select = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);

echo "<select>";
foreach($select->data as $options){
    echo "<option value='$options->value'>$options->name</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

which returns

<select>
 <option value='xyz'>zyx</option>
 <option value='abc'>cba</option>
</select>

edit

If you want to load an external .xml file, then you want to use simplexml_load_file() - http://php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php

$select = simplexml_load_file('xmlFile.xml');

echo "<select>";
foreach($select->data as $options){
    echo "<option value='$options->value'>$options->name</option>";
}
echo "</select>";