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Not strictly a Magento 2 thing, but if you have code that looks like this in your extension

namespace FooBazBar;
//...
if( $node instanceof SimpleXMLElement) {}

You’ll need to make sure that SimpleXMLElement is actually used in your current namespace.

namespace FooBazBar;
use SimpleXMLElement
//...
if( $node instanceof SimpleXMLElement) {}

Otherwise the instanceof operator will be looking for an instance of FooBazBarSimpleXMLElement, and not SimpleXMLElement.

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Originally Posted: 16th January 2016

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