XML support in PHP is actually pretty good these days, but as with anything in PHP (why is that?) it has a few little quirks and corner cases that provide for continual facepalm moments.

Rather than just sit around and complain or try to get stuff in to the core (where there’s no way I’d be able to use it in real world projects until RHEL catches up, i.e. 3-4 years from now) I thought I’d see what I could do purely in PHP.

Turns out it’s quite a lot, so it’s up on Github: https://github.com/neerolyte/php-lyte-xml#readme

So if you have to deal with the XML in PHP fairly often consider taking it for a spin.