#41784 [NEW]: casting simplexmlelement to string returns empty

From: mistknight at gmail dot com Operating system: kubuntu feisty 7.04 PHP version: 5.2.3 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: casting simplexmlelement to string returns empty Description: ------------ First of all I admit this was on PHP 5.2.1 and I have my PHP installed from repository, not compiled. It would be a pain to install PHP 5.2.3 Simply retrieve this ATOM 1.0 file and load it into a simpleXML object http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom Now try to get the <entry>'s nested <content> or <summary> tags as a string. If you cast your object like so: (string)$obj->content or (string)$obj->summary you will get an empty string. Is there ANY workaround for this that will let me retrieve the string? I tried the docs but there's nothing about this issue. They all say simply cast to string and I've done that on other simplexmlelement objects without problems, even elements which had nested tags. Thanks! Expected result: ---------------- The string located inside the <content></content> or <summary></summary> tags. Actual result: -------------- Empty string. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41784&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41784&r=mysqlcfg