What happens to the attributes?

[judgej]

The XML is parsed into a nice structure, but it seems only to parse text nodes into strings, and nested elements into nested objects.

What I don't see, is what happens to any attributes on an element. Are they lost? I don't see them come through in some simple experiments.

[judgej]

I guess $request->all() (with the middleware) provides the parsed XML with all attributes removed, which may be sufficient for many use-cases. If an API wants to parse the XML in more detail then the raw XML is available through $request->getContent().

[Tucker-Eric]

Correct. I think accessing through $request->all() should stay as it is as an array without attributes. Changing the handling of $request->xml(false) to return SimpleXMLElement instead of stdClass would provide a little more flexibility and not strip those attributes. Or should there be another method to retrieve the data with attributes?

[judgej]

It seems that $request->xml() may not be a binary choice...

array/stdClass/XMLDocoment?