function end_element($parser, $name) {

        $tag = array_pop(explode(":", $name));

        $ccount = count($this->in_content);

        # if we are *in* content, then let's proceed to serialize it
        if(!empty($this->in_content)) {
            # if we are ending the original content element
            # then let's finalize the content
            if($this->in_content[0][0] == $tag &&
                $this->in_content[0][1] == $this->depth) {
                $origtype = $this->in_content[0][2];
                array_shift($this->in_content);
                $newcontent = array();
                foreach($this->in_content as $c) {
                    if(count($c) == 3) {
                        array_push($newcontent, $c[2]);
                    } else {
                        if($this->is_xhtml || $this->is_text) {
                            array_push($newcontent, $this->xml_escape($c));
                        } else {
                            array_push($newcontent, $c);
                        }
                    }
                }
                if(in_array($tag, $this->ATOM_CONTENT_ELEMENTS)) {
                    $this->current->$tag = array($origtype, join('',$newcontent));
                } else {
                    $this->current->$tag = join('',$newcontent);
                }
                $this->in_content = array();
            } else if($this->in_content[$ccount-1][0] == $tag &&
                $this->in_content[$ccount-1][1] == $this->depth) {
                $this->in_content[$ccount-1][2] = substr($this->in_content[$ccount-1][2],0,-1) . "/>";
            } else {
                # else, just finalize the current element's content
                $endtag = $this->ns_to_prefix($name);
                array_push($this->in_content, array($tag, $this->depth, "</$endtag[1]>"));
            }
        }

        array_shift($this->ns_contexts);

        $this->depth--;

        if($name == ($this->NS . ':entry')) {
            array_push($this->feed->entries, $this->current);
            $this->current = null;
        }

        $this->_p("end_element('$name')");
    }