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

Well, this question is old but like me, someone might come to this page eventually. I had slightly different approach and I think the most elegant out of these mentioned.

Inside the xml, you put some unique word which you will use for new line.

Change xml to

And then when you get path to desired node in SimpleXML in string output write something like this:

$findme  = '\n';
$pos = strpos($output, $findme);
if($pos!=0)
{
$output = str_replace("\n","
",$output);

It doesn't have to be '\n, it can be any unique char.