note 40089 deleted from ref.simplexml by kennyt

Note Submitter: jwhite@theideabasket.com ---- One very important thing that I've found out (after much fiddling around) is that you have to typecast a SimpleXML variable to a string before assigning it to another variable. For example, if you wanted to add a certain attribute of several XML tags to an array using each tag's contents as the index, you'd have to do this: <?php foreach ($xml->paragraph as $i => $prop) { $propArray[(string)$prop] = (string)$prop['someattribute']; } ?> I guess this makes sense when you read about how the __toString() method works in the Zend Engine 2.0 change notes (http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php), but it seems just a wee bit complicated syntactically to me.