Parse a PHP file as an XML file?

That is where your problem is. This does not execute xml. Php but attempts to parse that file -- the PHP code that you've written -- as XML.

Obviously (since it isn't XML) this won't work.

Simplexml_load_file will try to actually load the php contents of the xml. Php file. It will not run that file first.

You need to do some rewriting or use this ugly solution.

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