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<?php

$xmlresponse = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<string xmlns="http://www.cebroker.com/CEBrokerWebService/">&lt;licensees&gt;&lt;licensee
 valid="true" State="FL" licensee_profession="RN"
 licensee_number="2676612" state_license_format="" first_name="HENRY"
 last_name="GEITER" ErrorCode="" Message="" TimeStamp="2/19/2022
 4:53:35 AM" /&gt;&lt;/licensees&gt;</string>';
 
$xml_string = simplexml_load_string($xmlresponse);
echo 'First time, we only get it as a string, not as XML' . PHP_EOL;
echo '------------------------------------------'. PHP_EOL;
var_dump($xml_string); // We can see that it's just a stirng, not XML

echo PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
$licensees = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);
echo 'The second time, we do get it as XML' . PHP_EOL;
echo '------------------------------------------'. PHP_EOL;
var_dump($licensees); // Not it's actually read as XML

Output for 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.1 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6: First time, we only get it as a string, not as XML ------------------------------------------ object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { [0]=> string(233) "<licensees><licensee valid="true" State="FL" licensee_profession="RN" licensee_number="2676612" state_license_format="" first_name="HENRY" last_name="GEITER" ErrorCode="" Message="" TimeStamp="2/19/2022 4:53:35 AM" /></licensees>" } The second time, we do get it as XML ------------------------------------------ object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (1) { ["licensee"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (1) { ["@attributes"]=> array(10) { ["valid"]=> string(4) "true" ["State"]=> string(2) "FL" ["licensee_profession"]=> string(2) "RN" ["licensee_number"]=> string(7) "2676612" ["state_license_format"]=> string(0) "" ["first_name"]=> string(5) "HENRY" ["last_name"]=> string(6) "GEITER" ["ErrorCode"]=> string(0) "" ["Message"]=> string(0) "" ["TimeStamp"]=> string(21) "2/19/2022 4:53:35 AM" } } }

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