Defining XML in default.ctp for use globally

Hi there

I am creating a site with an XML file with all the site changables
like email, phone number, address etc. Currently these are prone to
change so I want to keep the simplicity of using XML.

Problem is I have to keep cutting and pasting the same bit of code in
all my view files well, every page actually and that's bad.

I simply want to call the XML once, set it in a variable and on my
pages, I want to simply call that variable. So for instance, on my
contacts page, I want to get my XML <?php
$xmlConfiguration_array["Config"]["Numbers"]["office"] ?> and display
it to the page but what i've discovered is that if I set
$xmlConfiguration_array variable in the default.ctp file, I can't
access it anywhere else on the site.

Here is the function that I use to load the XML and it works fine.

function parseConfig_xml() {
App::import('Xml');
$configuration_xml = file_get_contents("xml/configuration.xml");
$parsedConfiguration_xml = & new XML($configuration_xml);
$parsedConfiguration_xml = Set::reverse($parsedConfiguration_xml);

return $parsedConfiguration_xml;
};

$xmlConfiguration_array = parseConfig_xml();

What's the best way of defining my configuration XML for use over the
entire site?

Many thanks in advance for the help and advice.

Akas

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