Successfully parsed SimpleXMLElement comparison to 'false' returning 'true'

Question

I got a very awkward and specific issue with a simplexml evaluation.

The code:

$simplexml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring);
var_dump($simplexml);
var_         


        

Answer 1

Have a look here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php#language.types.boolean.casting

It says that SimpleXML objects created from empty tags evaluate to false. Maybe that's what's going on?