Zend_Config_Xml strange behaviour

Question

I have a strange problem with Zend_Config_Xml.

Here is an example.

With this xml file https://gist.github.com/883465

this code:

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Answer 1

It seems that Zend_Config_Xml explicitly collapses such 1-element collections (there's an if statement in the source that does this). Some possible workarounds:

• Overload Zend_Config_Xml and fix the loader code so it doesn't collapse 1-element collections
• Overload Zend_Config_Xml and overload get() to include your ugly workaround in a cleaner way.
• Use SimpleXML instead of Zend_Config_Xml