joomla/joomla-platform — pull request #1222 by realityking (2012-05-25 17:43:44+00:00)
Title: Let JFactory::getXML() opt to receive a SimpleXMLElement.

This adds a deprecated log message to the constructor of JXMLElement and to reduce the number of times this is actually output prevents loading it all the time. I'm not sure whether we shouldn't default to load SimpleXMLElement instead of JXMLElement. For now I opted for the safer option but I'd like to hear what others think.