How to bypass the final constructor?

Question

PHP

In general, I decided to slightly expand the standard SimpleXMLElement for my own needs, and I need to call the constructor of the parent class SimpleXMLElement when initializing the object.
But it wasn’t there: the constructor of the parent class turned out to be final, and it’s impossible to overload it with the constructor of the heir.
Question: how to bypass?

class MyClass extends SimpleXMLElement {
  function __construct() {
    parent::__construct('<data></data>');
  }
}

PHP Fatal error: Cannot override final method SimpleXMLElement::__construct()

Answer 1

The first comment in the documentation already answers your question.
php.net/manual/ru/simplexmlelement.construct.php#79310
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegation_Pattern

Answer 2

class MyClass extends SimpleXMLElement {
  function create_instance() {
    $instance = new self('<data></data>');
    ...
    return $instance;
  }
}