Simplexml weirdness

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From every example I’ve seen, this works properly, but can’t figure out why I cannot get it work! Driving me nuts:

Sample XML


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<database>
	<tables>
		<table name="#_users">
			<columns>
				<column type="INT(8)" name="id">
					<null>0</null>
					<default></default>
					<primary>1</primary>
					<extra>AUTO_INCREMENT</extra>
				</column>
				<column type="VARCHAR(100)" name="username">
					<null>0</null>
					<index>1</index>
				</column>
			</columns>
			<desc>The users table</desc>
		</table>	
	</tables>
</database>

Sample code:


<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file( $file );
    	
if ( ! empty( $xml ) && $xml instanceof SimpleXMLElement ) {
    	
  	foreach ( $xml->tables as $table ) {
    	
    		print_r ( $table ); // Yep, XML is there!

    		echo $table['name']; // Outputs nothing! WHY?

  	}
}
?>

The xml loads as a SimpleXMLElement, I can see all the attributes in there, why the hell can’t I access them? What am I doing wrong?