--TEST-- SimpleXML: CDATA --SKIPIF-- --FILE-- Plain text. EOF ); var_dump($sxe); $elem1 = $sxe->elem1; $elem2 = $elem1->elem2; var_dump(trim((string)$elem2)); ?> ===DONE=== --EXPECTF-- object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (2) { [u"@attributes"]=> array(1) { [u"id"]=> unicode(5) "elem1" } [u"elem1"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (3) { [u"@attributes"]=> array(1) { [u"attr1"]=> unicode(5) "first" } [u"comment"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (0) { } [u"elem2"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [u"elem3"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [u"elem4"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [u"test"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (0) { } } } } } } unicode(11) "CDATA block" ===DONE===