title: scanning a page in a directory with sscanf()  or Simple XML
body: <p>I'd like to scan the contents of a .php file sitting in my site's directory and then do some other things with the text inside it. I've also seen things like this done with jquery's <code>.html()</code></p>
  
  <p>How would I do this using <code>sscanf()</code> or Simple XML? or is that the correct approach at all?</p>