PHP XMLReader - Composed of SimpleXMLElement to convert XML to Array - do not use for large xml!

XMLReader.php

<?php declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Util;

final class XMLReader
{
    private \SimpleXMLElement $XMLElement;

    /**
     * @param string $xmlString A well-formed XML string of any resource
     * @throws \InvalidArgumentException if string is not valid XML or well-formed
     */
    public function __construct(string $xmlString)
    {
        try {
            $this->XMLElement = simplexml_load_string($xmlString);
        } catch (\Exception $exception) {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException($exception->getMessage());
        }
    }

    public static function fromXmlString(string $xmlString): self
    {
        return new self($xmlString);
    }

    public function toJson(): string
    {
        return json_encode($this->XMLElement);
    }

    public function toArray(): array
    {
        return json_decode($this->toJson(), true);
    }
}