note 97562 added to class.simplexmlelement

It seems simpleXML has no nice way to handle nodes containing mixed text and other nodes. If you have the xml: <?php $xmlString = '<node>starting text <b>bold text</b> ending text</node>'; ?> The resulting SimpleXMLElement will have only 1 child, unlike the DOM library which will also gives you two #text elements. With SimpleXML you can no longer get the individual bits of text "starting text " and " ending text". If you convert the SimpleXMLElement to a string, you'll get a single string "starting text ending text" without the middle element, which also seems very counter intuitive to me. Am I missing something here? ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 137.224.32.202 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.simplexmlelement.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/97562 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97562 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/97562 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php