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Subject: toString() in SimpleXML?
From: leendert@thewebmen.com (Leendert Brouwer)

Hi,

I have a feature request. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a 
toString() or perhaps nodeValue() method in SimpleXML's SimpleXMLElement 
class? It might make it more obvious that the element is still a 
SimpleXMLElement object when you want to actually use it (when you print 
it, the value automagically casts to a string internally, so users might 
think that it will be casted to a string when you directly access it 
without a specified property/method, which is not the case). I know that 
the docs say that you should cast it to a string when you want to do a 
comparison, but apart from that just being an example, maybe my 
suggestion is a more obvious one to notice?

regards,

Leendert