private function xmlToObj($fileContents)
  {
    $fileContents = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t"), '', $fileContents);
    $fileContents = trim(str_replace('"', "'", $fileContents));
    $simpleXml    = simplexml_load_string($fileContents, null, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

    return $simpleXml;
  }