"line 1\nline 2\nline 3 (no eol)"<br>
"Thumbs.db\n.htaccess\n"<br>
"line one\nline two\nline three (yes eol)\n"<br>
"this is single line"<br>

<br><hr><br>Generated by:<pre>&lt;?php
$xml = &lt;&lt;&lt;XML
&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
&lt;properties&gt;
&lt;target
   path=&quot;svn://some.repo.com/path/to/folder/file&quot;&gt;
&lt;property
   name=&quot;test:multi_line_new_no_eol&quot;&gt;line 1
line 2
line 3 (no eol)&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;property
   name=&quot;svn:ignore&quot;&gt;Thumbs.db
.htaccess
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;property
   name=&quot;test:multi_line_new&quot;&gt;line one
line two
line three (yes eol)
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;property
   name=&quot;test:single_line_new&quot;&gt;this is single line&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/target&gt;
&lt;/properties&gt;
XML;

$proplist = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
foreach ($proplist-&gt;target-&gt;property as $property) {
  print(json_encode((string) $property).&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;.PHP_EOL);
}
?&gt;

</pre>