--TEST-- SimpleXML: Entities --SKIPIF-- --FILE-- ]> Plain text. &included-entity; EOF; var_dump(simplexml_load_string($xml)); ?> ===DONE=== --EXPECTF-- object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (2) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["id"]=> string(5) "elem1" } ["elem1"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (3) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["attr1"]=> string(5) "first" } ["comment"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (0) { } ["elem2"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { ["elem3"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (2) { ["included-entity"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { ["included-entity"]=> string(36) "This is text included from an entity" } ["elem4"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { ["test"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (0) { } } } } } } ===DONE===