What are the limitations of sorting objects returned by SimpleXML in PHP?

SimpleXML in PHP does not provide built-in sorting functionality for objects returned by it. To overcome this limitation, you can convert the SimpleXML object into an array, sort the array using PHP's array functions, and then convert it back to SimpleXML if needed.

// Assume $xml is the SimpleXML object
$xmlArray = json_decode(json_encode($xml), true); // Convert SimpleXML object to array
sort($xmlArray); // Sort the array
$xmlSorted = simplexml_load_string(json_encode($xmlArray)); // Convert the sorted array back to SimpleXML