Miscellany

	# cURL function to get the XML schema
	function getRequest( $url ){
	$ch      = curl_init( $url );
	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE );
	$content = curl_exec( $ch );
	$this->status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
	curl_close( $ch );
	return $content;
	}