Description:
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I parsed an XML file with SimpleXML (I used simplexml_load_file()) and I stored it into $xml.
You can view the object (printed using var_dump()) here: http://phpfi.com/74016
I needed to copy the array "album" (only that array) into $album, so I did $album = $xml->album; .
At this point $album didn't contain all the array, but only the first element:
object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (4) {
  ["id"]=>
  string(1) "2"
  ["parent_id"]=>
  string(1) "3"
  ["name"]=>
  string(13) "Test subalbum"
  ["description"]=>
  object(SimpleXMLElement)#5 (0) {
  }
}

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2, Apache 2.0.53, PHP 5.0.4, SimpleXML 1.139.2.4 (I took the dll from the archive pecl-5.0.4).