Response with raw PDF could not be parsed as XML

Question

I recieve an XML-response from an API that looks something like this;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<tppxmlresponse>
<requestvalid>1</requestvalid>
<invoicevalid>1</invoicevalid>
<invoicepdf><![CDATA[%PDF-1.3
%“Œ‹ž ReportLab Generated PDF document http://www.reportlab.com
% 'BasicFonts': class PDFDictionary 
1 0 obj
% The standard fonts dictionary
<< /F1 2 0 R
 /F2 3 0 R
 /F3+0 11 0 R >>
endobj
(....)
startxref
110364
%%EOF
]]></invoicepdf></tppxmlresponse>

<invoicepdf> contains raw PDF that I'm looking to fetch. But using the regular new SimpleXMLElement($response); on the response returns the following error;

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Exception: String could not be parsed as XML in (...)

Any ideas to best access the contents of <invoicepdf>, stripping away the XML, would be awesome. Thanks!

Have you tried sending the XML through an XML-Validator just to be sure it's not malformed? — Realitätsverlust, May 28 '20 at 08:27
Hah, it doesnt validate. Seems to be a tag-character in the middle of the raw pdf-mess. Thanks! — danjah, May 28 '20 at 08:32
Does this answer your question? [Getting cdata content while parsing xml file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650203/getting-cdata-content-while-parsing-xml-file) — Daniel Protopopov, May 28 '20 at 08:55

Response with raw PDF could not be parsed as XML

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