--TEST-- SimpleXML: concatenating attributes --SKIPIF-- --FILE-- EOF; $people = simplexml_load_string($xml); var_dump($people->person['name']); $people->person['name'] .= 'Bar'; var_dump($people->person['name']); ?> ===DONE=== --EXPECTF-- object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [0]=> string(3) "Foo" } object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [0]=> string(6) "FooBar" } ===DONE===