note 102361 added to class.simplexmlelement

Simple recursive function to append XML object into SimpleXMLElement node:

<?php
// root: parent element - SimpleXMLElement instance
// append: XML object from simplexml_load_string

function xml_join($root, $append) {
	if ($append) {
		if (strlen(trim((string) $append))==0) {
			$xml = $root->addChild($append->getName());
			foreach($append->children() as $child) {
				xml_join($xml, $child);
			}
		} else {
			$xml = $root->addChild($append->getName(), (string) $append);
		}
		foreach($append->attributes() as $n => $v) {
			$xml->addAttribute($n, $v);
		}
	}
}

$xml_append = simplexml_load_string('<data><items><item id="1">value</item></items></data>');
$xml_root = new SimpleXMLElement('<result></result>');

$cxml = $xml_root->addChild('clone');
xml_join($cxml, $xml_append->items->item[0]);

print $xml_root->asXML();
?>

Result:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<result>
	<clone>
		<item id="1">
			value
		</item>
	</clone>
</result>
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