function parse($strInputXML) {
   
           $this->resParser = xml_parser_create ();
           xml_set_object($this->resParser,$this);
           xml_set_element_handler($this->resParser, "tagOpen", "tagClosed");
           
           xml_set_character_data_handler($this->resParser, "tagData");
       
           $this->strXmlData = xml_parse($this->resParser,$strInputXML );
		   if(!$this->strXmlData) {
               die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
           xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->resParser)),
           xml_get_current_line_number($this->resParser)));
           }
                           
           xml_parser_free($this->resParser);
           
           return $this->arrOutput;
   }