diff --git a/hphp/runtime/ext/ext_simplexml.cpp b/hphp/runtime/ext/ext_simplexml.cpp
index 32fabccef..67445f340 100644
--- a/hphp/runtime/ext/ext_simplexml.cpp
+++ b/hphp/runtime/ext/ext_simplexml.cpp
@@ -524,9 +524,7 @@ Object c_SimpleXMLElement::t_children(CStrRef ns /* = "" */,
   elem->m_is_text = m_is_text;
   elem->m_free_text = m_free_text;
   elem->m_is_children = true;
-  if (m_is_text) {
-    // text nodes don't have children
-  } else if (ns.empty()) {
+  if (ns.empty()) {
     elem->m_children.assignRef(m_children);
   } else {
     Array props = Array::Create();
@@ -875,9 +873,7 @@ Variant c_SimpleXMLElement::t___set(Variant name, Variant value) {
 }
 
 bool c_SimpleXMLElement::o_toBooleanImpl() const noexcept {
-  return (m_node || getDynProps().size()) &&
-         (m_node->parent->type != XML_DOCUMENT_NODE ||
-          m_children.toArray().size());
+  return (m_node || getDynProps().size());
 }
 
 int64_t c_SimpleXMLElement::o_toInt64Impl() const noexcept {
diff --git a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/boolean_cast.php b/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/boolean_cast.php
deleted file mode 100644
index f80acc242..000000000
--- a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/boolean_cast.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-$element = new SimpleXMLElement('<root />');
-var_dump((bool)$element);
-
-$element = new SimpleXMLElement('<root><child /></root>');
-var_dump((bool)$element->child);
diff --git a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/boolean_cast.php.expect b/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/boolean_cast.php.expect
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d42d704e..000000000
--- a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/boolean_cast.php.expect
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bool(false)
-bool(true)
diff --git a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/text_children.php b/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/text_children.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e2e72ec7..000000000
--- a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/text_children.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-$element = simplexml_load_string('<root><hello>world</hello></root>');
-var_dump($element->hello->children());
diff --git a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/text_children.php.expect b/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/text_children.php.expect
deleted file mode 100644
index 408dfe568..000000000
--- a/hphp/test/slow/simple_xml/text_children.php.expect
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (0) {
-}