diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/Caster.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/Caster.php
index 23e72e87701e..28cdef5d4587 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/Caster.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/Caster.php
@@ -73,11 +73,14 @@ public static function castObject($obj, \ReflectionClass $reflector)
      * @param array    $a                The array containing the properties to filter.
      * @param int      $filter           A bit field of Caster::EXCLUDE_* constants specifying which properties to filter out.
      * @param string[] $listedProperties List of properties to exclude when Caster::EXCLUDE_VERBOSE is set, and to preserve when Caster::EXCLUDE_NOT_IMPORTANT is set.
+     * @param int      &$count           Set to the number of removed properties.
      *
      * @return array The filtered array
      */
-    public static function filter(array $a, $filter, array $listedProperties = array())
+    public static function filter(array $a, $filter, array $listedProperties = array(), &$count = 0)
     {
+        $count = 0;
+
         foreach ($a as $k => $v) {
             $type = self::EXCLUDE_STRICT & $filter;
 
@@ -108,6 +111,7 @@ public static function filter(array $a, $filter, array $listedProperties = array
 
             if ((self::EXCLUDE_STRICT & $filter) ? $type === $filter : $type) {
                 unset($a[$k]);
+                ++$count;
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/StubCaster.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/StubCaster.php
index ebad5ba9844e..3d8016eb985a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/StubCaster.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/StubCaster.php
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ public static function castEnum(EnumStub $c, array $a, Stub $stub, $isNested)
             $stub->class = '';
             $stub->handle = 0;
             $stub->value = null;
+            $stub->cut = $c->cut;
 
             $a = array();
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..df23cf2432b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+<?php
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster;
+
+use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\Stub;
+
+/**
+ * Casts XmlReader class to array representation.
+ *
+ * @author Baptiste Clavié <clavie.b@gmail.com>
+ */
+class XmlReaderCaster
+{
+    private static $nodeTypes = array(
+        \XmlReader::NONE => 'NONE',
+        \XmlReader::ELEMENT => 'ELEMENT',
+        \XmlReader::ATTRIBUTE => 'ATTRIBUTE',
+        \XmlReader::TEXT => 'TEXT',
+        \XmlReader::CDATA => 'CDATA',
+        \XmlReader::ENTITY_REF => 'ENTITY_REF',
+        \XmlReader::ENTITY => 'ENTITY',
+        \XmlReader::PI => 'PI (Processing Instruction)',
+        \XmlReader::COMMENT => 'COMMENT',
+        \XmlReader::DOC => 'DOC',
+        \XmlReader::DOC_TYPE => 'DOC_TYPE',
+        \XmlReader::DOC_FRAGMENT => 'DOC_FRAGMENT',
+        \XmlReader::NOTATION => 'NOTATION',
+        \XmlReader::WHITESPACE => 'WHITESPACE',
+        \XmlReader::SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE => 'SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE',
+        \XmlReader::END_ELEMENT => 'END_ELEMENT',
+        \XmlReader::END_ENTITY => 'END_ENTITY',
+        \XmlReader::XML_DECLARATION => 'XML_DECLARATION',
+    );
+
+    public static function castXmlReader(\XmlReader $reader, array $a, Stub $stub, $isNested)
+    {
+        $props = Caster::PREFIX_VIRTUAL.'parserProperties';
+        $info = array(
+            'localName' => $reader->localName,
+            'prefix' => $reader->prefix,
+            'nodeType' => new ConstStub(self::$nodeTypes[$reader->nodeType], $reader->nodeType),
+            'depth' => $reader->depth,
+            'isDefault' => $reader->isDefault,
+            'isEmptyElement' => \XmlReader::NONE === $reader->nodeType ? null : $reader->isEmptyElement,
+            'xmlLang' => $reader->xmlLang,
+            'attributeCount' => $reader->attributeCount,
+            'value' => $reader->value,
+            'namespaceURI' => $reader->namespaceURI,
+            'baseURI' => $reader->baseURI,
+            $props => array(
+                'LOADDTD' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XmlReader::LOADDTD),
+                'DEFAULTATTRS' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XmlReader::DEFAULTATTRS),
+                'VALIDATE' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XmlReader::VALIDATE),
+                'SUBST_ENTITIES' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XmlReader::SUBST_ENTITIES),
+            ),
+        );
+
+        if ($info[$props] = Caster::filter($info[$props], Caster::EXCLUDE_EMPTY, array(), $count)) {
+            $info[$props] = new EnumStub($info[$props]);
+            $info[$props]->cut = $count;
+        }
+
+        $info = Caster::filter($info, Caster::EXCLUDE_EMPTY, array(), $count);
+        // +2 because hasValue and hasAttributes are always filtered
+        $stub->cut += $count + 2;
+
+        return $a + $info;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Cloner/AbstractCloner.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Cloner/AbstractCloner.php
index 99ca07f264d7..ea1495519547 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Cloner/AbstractCloner.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Cloner/AbstractCloner.php
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ abstract class AbstractCloner implements ClonerInterface
         'DOMProcessingInstruction' => 'Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster\DOMCaster::castProcessingInstruction',
         'DOMXPath' => 'Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster\DOMCaster::castXPath',
 
+        'XmlReader' => 'Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster\XmlReaderCaster::castXmlReader',
+
         'ErrorException' => 'Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster\ExceptionCaster::castErrorException',
         'Exception' => 'Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster\ExceptionCaster::castException',
         'Error' => 'Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Caster\ExceptionCaster::castError',
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a92ebe29aba2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Tests\Caster;
+
+use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Test\VarDumperTestTrait;
+
+/**
+ * @author Baptiste Clavié <clavie.b@gmail.com>
+ */
+class XmlReaderCasterTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    use VarDumperTestTrait;
+
+    /** @var \XmlReader */
+    private $reader;
+
+    protected function setUp()
+    {
+        $this->reader = new \XmlReader();
+        $this->reader->open(__DIR__.'/../Fixtures/xml_reader.xml');
+    }
+
+    protected function tearDown()
+    {
+        $this->reader->close();
+    }
+
+    public function testParserProperty()
+    {
+        $this->reader->setParserProperty(\XMLReader::SUBST_ENTITIES, true);
+
+        $expectedDump = <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +nodeType: NONE
+  parserProperties: {
+    SUBST_ENTITIES: true
+     …3
+  }
+   …12
+}
+EODUMP;
+
+        $this->assertDumpMatchesFormat($expectedDump, $this->reader);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider provideNodes
+     */
+    public function testNodes($seek, $expectedDump)
+    {
+        while ($seek--) {
+            $this->reader->read();
+        }
+        $this->assertDumpMatchesFormat($expectedDump, $this->reader);
+    }
+
+    public function provideNodes()
+    {
+        return array(
+            array(0, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +nodeType: NONE
+   …13
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(1, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "foo"
+  +nodeType: ELEMENT
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …11
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(2, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "#text"
+  +nodeType: SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE
+  +depth: 1
+  +value: """
+    \n
+        
+    """
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(3, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "bar"
+  +nodeType: ELEMENT
+  +depth: 1
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …10
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(4, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "bar"
+  +nodeType: END_ELEMENT
+  +depth: 1
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …10
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(6, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "bar"
+  +nodeType: ELEMENT
+  +depth: 1
+  +isEmptyElement: true
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(9, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "#text"
+  +nodeType: TEXT
+  +depth: 2
+  +value: "With text"
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(12, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "bar"
+  +nodeType: ELEMENT
+  +depth: 1
+  +attributeCount: 2
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(13, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "bar"
+  +nodeType: END_ELEMENT
+  +depth: 1
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …10
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(15, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "bar"
+  +nodeType: ELEMENT
+  +depth: 1
+  +attributeCount: 1
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(16, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "#text"
+  +nodeType: SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE
+  +depth: 2
+  +value: """
+    \n
+            
+    """
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(17, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "baz"
+  +prefix: "baz"
+  +nodeType: ELEMENT
+  +depth: 2
+  +namespaceURI: "http://symfony.com"
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …8
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(18, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "baz"
+  +prefix: "baz"
+  +nodeType: END_ELEMENT
+  +depth: 2
+  +namespaceURI: "http://symfony.com"
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …8
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(19, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "#text"
+  +nodeType: SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE
+  +depth: 2
+  +value: """
+    \n
+        
+    """
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(21, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "#text"
+  +nodeType: SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE
+  +depth: 1
+  +value: "\n"
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …9
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+            array(22, <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +localName: "foo"
+  +nodeType: END_ELEMENT
+  +baseURI: "%sxml_reader.xml"
+   …11
+}
+EODUMP
+            ),
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Fixtures/xml_reader.xml b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Fixtures/xml_reader.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..740c399fc443
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Fixtures/xml_reader.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<foo>
+    <bar></bar>
+    <bar />
+    <bar>With text</bar>
+    <bar foo="bar" baz="fubar"></bar>
+    <bar xmlns:baz="http://symfony.com">
+        <baz:baz></baz:baz>
+    </bar>
+</foo>