/*EDIT print_r(gzdecoder(simplexml_load_file('test.xml')));
(Not sure without testing that the internals of what loads the xml
in *_load_file would see the gzipped content as invalid)
*/
$xml=simplexml_load_string(gzdecoder(file_get_contents('test.xml')));
print_r( $xml);
function gzdecoder($d){
$f=ord(substr($d,3,1));
$h=10;$e=0;
if($f&4){
$e=unpack('v',substr($d,10,2));
$e=$e[1];$h+=2+$e;
}
if($f&8){
$h=strpos($d,chr(0),$h)+1;
}
if($f&16){
$h=strpos($d,chr(0),$h)+1;
}
if($f&2){
$h+=2;
}
$u = gzinflate(substr($d,$h));
if($u===FALSE){
$u=$d;
}
return $u;
}