PHP Manual: Returns the string content

public string SimpleXMLElement::__toString()

Returns text content that is directly in this element. Does not return text content that is inside this element's children.

This function has no parameters.

Returns the string content on success or an empty string on failure.

Example #1 Get string content

<?php
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<a>1 <b>2 </b>3</a>');
echo $xml;
?>

The above example will output:

1 3

SimpleXMLElement::__toString