/**
		 * packXML::packXML() - constructor
		 * 
		 * @return void 
		 */
		function packXML($rootName){
			//create xml parser
			$this->xml = domxml_new_xmldoc('1.0');
			
			//set root node
			$this->root = domxml_add_root($this->xml,$rootName);
		}
 /**
 * Constructor
 * The Constructor can take a Pear::DB "data source name" (eg.
 *  "mysql://*****:*****@localhost/dbname") and will then connect
 *  to the DB, or a PEAR::DB object link, if you already connected
 *  the db before.
 "  If you provide nothing as $dsn, you only can later add stuff with
 *   a pear::db-resultset or as an array. providing sql-strings will
 *   not work.
 * the $root param is used, if you want to provide another name for your
 *  root-tag than "root". if you give an empty string (""), there will be no
 *  root element created here, but only when you add a resultset/array/sql-string.
 *  And the first tag of this result is used as the root tag.
 *
 * @param  mixed $dsn    PEAR::DB "data source name" or object DB object
 * @param  string $root  the name of the xml-doc root element.
 * @access   public
 */
 function XML_sql2xml($dsn = Null, $root = 'root')
 {
     // if it's a string, then it must be a dsn-identifier;
     if (is_string($dsn)) {
         include_once 'DB.php';
         $this->db = DB::Connect($dsn);
         if (DB::isError($this->db)) {
             print "The given dsn for XML_sql2xml was not valid in file " . __FILE__ . " at line " . __LINE__ . "<br>\n";
             return new DB_Error($this->db->code, PEAR_ERROR_DIE);
         }
     } elseif (is_object($dsn) && DB::isError($dsn)) {
         print "The given param for XML_sql2xml was not valid in file " . __FILE__ . " at line " . __LINE__ . "<br>\n";
         return new DB_Error($dsn->code, PEAR_ERROR_DIE);
     } elseif (strtolower(get_parent_class($dsn)) == 'db_common') {
         // if parent class is db_common, then it's already a connected identifier
         $this->db = $dsn;
     }
     $this->xmldoc = domxml_new_xmldoc('1.0');
     //oehm, seems not to work, unfortunately.... does anybody know a solution?
     $this->xmldoc->encoding = $this->encoding_to;
     if ($root) {
         $this->xmlroot = $this->xmldoc->add_root($root);
         //PHP 4.0.6 had $root->name as tagname, check for that here...
         if (!isset($this->xmlroot->{$this->tagname})) {
             $this->tagname = 'name';
         }
     }
 }