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<?php $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root><elements attr="test"><el>test1</el><el>test2</el><el test_attr="123">test3</el></elements></root>'); //print_r(json_decode(json_encode((array) simplexml_load_string($xml)), 1)); function xml2array ( $xmlObject ) { $out = array (); foreach ( (array) $xmlObject as $index => $node ) $out[$index] = ( is_object ( $node ) ) ? xml2array ( $node ) : $node; return $out; } print_r(xml2array($xml));