Online PHP editor | output for EBgAJ

<?php $xml = <<<XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <garbage> <selfClosedElement attribute="annoying" />parse this text </garbage> </root> XML; $reader = new \XMLReader(); $reader->open('data://text/plain,' . urlencode($xml)); $nextElement = static function (string $name) use ($reader) { while ($reader->read()) { if ($reader->nodeType === \XMLReader::ELEMENT && $name === $reader->name) { return true; } } return false; }; while ($reader->read()) { if ($reader->nodeType === \XMLReader::ELEMENT) { if ($reader->name === 'garbage') { echo $reader->readString(); if($nextElement('selfClosedElement')) { echo 'attribute, hopefully: ' . $reader->getAttribute('attribute') . \PHP_EOL; } } } }