note 86224 added to class.domelement

Caveat!
It took me almost an hour to figure this out, so I hope it saves at least one of you some time.

If you want to debug your DOM tree and try var_dump() or similar you will be fooled into thinking the DOMElement that you are looking at is empty, because var_dump() says: object(DOMElement)#1 (0) { } 

After much debugging I found out that all DOM objects are invisible to var_dump() and print_r(), my guess is because they are C objects and not PHP objects. So I tried saveXML(), which works fine on DOMDocument, but is not implemented on DOMElement.

The solution is simple (if you know it):
$xml = $domElement->ownerDocument->saveXML($domElement);

This will give you an XML representation of $domElement.
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