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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:10:46 +0100
Reply-To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] toString() in SimpleXML?
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Leendert,

  having a function __toString() would interfere with the mapping ideas of
SimpleXML. However it is there internally so you simply do one of the
following:
php -r '$x=SimpleXML_load_string("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><root>blablabla</root>"); echo $x, "\n"; var_dump((string)$x);'

regards
marcus

further questions please to general@php.net

Monday, February 14, 2005, 1:23:44 PM, you wrote:

> 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




-- 
Best regards,
 Marcus                            mailto:helly@php.net