--TEST-- SimpleXML and Entities --SKIPIF-- --FILE-- ]> Plain text. &included-entity; EOF; $sxe = simplexml_load_string($xml); print_r($sxe); echo "---Done---\n"; ?> --EXPECT-- SimpleXMLElement Object ( [elem1] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [comment] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) [elem2] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [elem3] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [included-entity] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [included-entity] => This is text included from an entity ) [elem4] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [test] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) ) ) ) ) ) ---Done---