SimpleXml to string

Question

Is there any function that makes string from PHP SimpleXMLElement?

Answer 1

You can use the SimpleXMLElement::asXML() method to accomplish this:

$string = "<element><child>Hello World</child></element>"; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($string);  // The entire XML tree as a string: // "<element><child>Hello World</child></element>" $xml->asXML();  // Just the child node as a string: // "<child>Hello World</child>" $xml->child->asXML(); 

Answer 2

You can use casting:

<?php  $string = "<element><child>Hello World</child></element>"; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($string);  $text = (string)$xml->child; 

$text will be 'Hello World'