SimpleXml to string

Question

Is there any function that makes string from PHP SimpleXMLElement

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Here is a function I wrote to solve this issue  assuming tag has no attributes   This function will keep HTML formatting in the node   function getAsXMLContent  xmlElement       content  xmlElement- gt asXML        end strpos  content   gt       if   end   false           tag substr  content  1   end-1        return str replace array   lt    tag   gt      lt     tag   gt          content         else     return          string     lt element gt  lt child gt Hello World lt  child gt  lt  element gt     xml   new SimpleXMLElement  string    echo getAsXMLContent  xml- gt child      prints Hello World

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You can use - gt child to get a child element named child   This element will contain the text of the child element   But if you try var dump   on that variable  you will see it is not actually a PHP string   The easiest way around this is to perform a strval xml- gt child   That will convert it to an actual PHP string   This is useful when debugging when looping your XML and using var dump   to check the result   So  s   strval  xml- gt child

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Probably depending on the XML feed you may may not need to use   toString    I had to use the   toString   otherwise it is returning the string inside an SimpleXMLElement   Maybe I need to drill down the object further

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You can use casting    lt  php   string     lt element gt  lt child gt Hello World lt  child gt  lt  element gt     xml   new SimpleXMLElement  string     text    string  xml- gt child     text will be  Hello World

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Actually asXML   converts the string into xml as it name says    lt id gt 5 lt  id gt    This will display normally on a web page but it will cause problems when you matching values with something else   You may use strip tags function to get real value of the field like    newString   strip tags  xml- gt asXML       PS  if you are working with integers or floating numbers  you need to convert it into integer with intval   or floatval      newNumber   intval strip tags  xml- gt asXML

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Sometimes you can simply typecast      this is the value of my  xml object SimpleXMLElement  10227  1       0   gt    string 2   en      s    string   xml     returns  en

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You can use the SimpleXMLElement  asXML   method to accomplish this    string     lt element gt  lt child gt Hello World lt  child gt  lt  element gt     xml   new SimpleXMLElement  string       The entire XML tree as a string       lt element gt  lt child gt Hello World lt  child gt  lt  element gt    xml- gt asXML        Just the child node as a string       lt child gt Hello World lt  child gt    xml- gt child- gt asXML

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You can use the asXML method as    lt  php     string to SimpleXMLElement  xml   new SimpleXMLElement  string       make any changes           convert the SimpleXMLElement back to string   newString    xml- gt asXML      gt

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