Question

I am writing a task to import a XML. Debugging is a pain as both var_dump and print_r return seemingly empty objects for DOM objects like DOMElement and DOMNodeList list, looking so:

object(DOMElement)#330 (0) {}
object(DOMNodeList)#335 (0) {}

But they are not empty as I can read the values.

What debugging options have I instead?

Answer 1

For a DomDocument I var_dump using the xml output.

var_dump($dom->saveXML());

For a DOMElement, I use (as seen here):

var_dump($domElement->ownerDocument->saveXML($domElement));

But DOMNodeList, I have no idea. Maybe you have to attach/append it to a DomDocument, and then var_dump it.

And btw, not showing internals of a DomDocument is reported (here: Reflection).