Comment 29 for bug 93603

Re #28, simplexml is aleady available for lucid.

On my lucid system, which has the following PHP pacakges installed:
  libapache2-mod-php5, php-doc, php5, php5-cli , php5-common , php5-curl , php5-gd, php5-gmp, php5-pgsql

 I can run:
     php5 --ri simplexml
and it's there.

Hope that helps.