note 76529 deleted from ref.simplexml by danbrown

Note Submitter: julien plee using G mail dot com ---- <to bens at effortlessis dot com> I see your problem, but there's a workaround. After loading your SimpleXML object into $xml, call $xml->getName () and you'll get your root tag name. I use PHP 5.1.4 on Apache 1.3.33 on MacOS X and this works on it. I hope there was no SimpleXML ability downgrading :o) Also, I kinda remember reading somewhere in this doc an advise saying "Don't use data structures parsers like var_dump() on SimpleXML." This may be the reason. And you may will work your second problem around using SimpleXMLElement->attributes() and SimpleXMLElement->getName ().