PHP, SimpleXML arrays. Unanticipated casting of an array to a string?

Ok, cleaning up some of my own work. After attempting to simplify my issue more, I was not able to prove it. After messing with the actual code, I assume this means I have some sort of mutating object elsewhere in my app that is going bonkers and creating weird results in this xml parsing.

Sorry for the confusion and needless question (I guess this proves why i'm trying to refactor some of my complexity out of this app).

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