PHP SimpleXML doesn't preserve line breaks in XML attributes

Question

I have to parse externally provided XML that has attributes with line breaks in them. Using SimpleXML, the line breaks seem to be lost. According to another stackoverflow

Answer 1

This is what worked for me:

First, get the xml as a string:

    $xml = file_get_contents($urlXml);

Then do the replacement:

    $xml = str_replace(".\xe2\x80\xa9",".\n\n",$xml);

The "." and "< as:eol/ >" were there because I needed to add breaks in that case. The new lines "\n" can be replaced with whatever you like.

After replacing, just load the xml-string as a SimpleXMLElement object:

    $xmlo = new SimpleXMLElement( $xml );

Et Voilà