--TEST-- GH-12169 (Unable to get comment contents in SimpleXML) --EXTENSIONS-- simplexml --FILE-- XML; $sxe = simplexml_load_string($xml); var_dump($sxe->xpath("//comment()")[0]->getName()); var_dump((string) $sxe->xpath("//comment()")[0]); ?> --EXPECT-- string(7) "comment" string(18) " comment contents "