title: simplexml_load_string return empty result
body: <p>It may be simple, but I am kind of stuck. I want to convert an XML string into PHP object. My XML string is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$a = '&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
          &lt;soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
              &lt;soap:Body&gt;
                  &lt;VerifyTxnResponse xmlns="http://www.exmlplekhe.com/"&gt;
                      &lt;VerifyTxnResult&gt;BID &amp;lt;11467&amp;gt;&lt;/VerifyTxnResult&gt;
                  &lt;/VerifyTxnResponse&gt;
              &lt;/soap:Body&gt;
          &lt;/soap:Envelope&gt;';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried <code>var_dump(simplexml_load_string($a));</code>, but it returns empty <code>SimpleXMLElement</code> object. I want to get <code>VerifyTxnResult</code> node. I think, <code>&amp;lt;11467&amp;gt;</code> is causing the problem. What may be the possible solution?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>