note 97562 rejected from class.simplexmlelement by danbrown

Note Submitter: hylke dot vanderschaaf at wur dot nl ---- 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?