- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$DOMDocumentNode = new DOMDocument();
$DOMDocumentNode->loadXML('<example a="b">Test</example>');
$DOMElementNode = $DOMDocumentNode->documentElement;
$DOMAttributeNode = $DOMElementNode->getAttributeNode('a');
$DOMTextNode = $DOMElementNode->firstChild;
var_dump($DOMDocumentNode, $DOMElementNode, $DOMAttributeNode, $DOMTextNode);