Getting string inside an array form simplexml xpath query result

Question

i am working with an xml, using simplexml and xpath now when i echo a result of xpth query it echoing string but i need to get that string in a array, but when trying to copy in a array it is coming as and simplexml object, like

object(SimpleXMLElement)#237 (1) {
 [0]=>
 string(69) "Hallituksen esitykset uusiksi Yle-laeiksi eduskunnan käsiteltäviksi"
}

is just want "Hallituksen esitykset uusiksi Yle-laeiksi eduskunnan käsiteltäviksi" here is the code,

 $xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>" . $pageBlocks['news'];
 $xmldata = simplexml_load_string($xml);
 $result = $xmldata->xpath('/blocks/block/items/item/strong');
 $feeddata = array();
 while (list(, $node) = each($result)) {
 $feeddata [] = $node[0];
 }
 foreach ($feeddata as $data){
 var_dump($data);
 }

how to solve that

Answer 1

To get it as a string, simply cast it via (string), which will internally call SimpleXMLElement's __toString() to return a string representation. That's what's also happening implicitly when you echo it, incidentally.

while (list(, $node) = each($result)) {
 $feeddata [] = (string)$node[0];
}

• lorenzo-s: I love SimpleXML also for this feature.
• Michael Berkowski: @lorenzo-s I "grew up" on DOMDocument, but have mostly switched to SimpleXML because of this ease of use.