What is the best method to read and process XML data from an external server using PHP?

To read and process XML data from an external server using PHP, you can use the SimpleXML extension which provides a simple and easy way to parse XML data. You can use functions like simplexml_load_file() to load the XML data from the external server and then access the elements and attributes as objects in your PHP script. 

// Load the XML data from the external server
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://example.com/data.xml');

// Access and process the XML data
foreach ($xml->children() as $child) {
    echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br>";
}

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XML data processing external server PHP parsing

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