Amazon MWS SubmitFeed - Fatal error: Call to a member function asXML() on a non-object

I know similar questions have already been asked, however, I have tried the solutions without any success. I keep getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function asXML() on a non-object in ... on line 188

Here is my code:

$dom->save("productInfo.xml");
$feedHandle = file_get_contents("productInfo.xml");

 $params = array(
'AWSAccessKeyId'=> "*****",
'Action'=>"SubmitFeed",
'SellerId'=> "********",
'SignatureMethod' => "HmacSHA256",
'SignatureVersion'=> "2",
'Timestamp'=> gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s.\\0\\0\\0\\Z", time()),
'Version' => "2009-01-01",
'FeedContent' => $feedHandle,//must be a string
'FeedType' => "_POST_PRODUCT_DATA_");

 // Sort the URL parameters
$url_parts = array();
foreach(array_keys($params) as $key)
$url_parts[] = $key . "=" . str_replace('%7E', '~', rawurlencode($params[$key]));
  sort($url_parts);

  // Construct the string to sign
$url_string = implode("&", $url_parts);
$string_to_sign = "GET\nmws.amazonservices.com\n/Feeds/2009-01-01\n" . $url_string;

  // Sign the request
$signature = hash_hmac("sha256", $string_to_sign, "******", TRUE);

  // Base64 encode the signature and make it URL safe
$signature = urlencode(base64_encode($signature));

$url = "http://ift.tt/14wpXhs" . '?' . $url_string . "&Signature=" . $signature;

  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
  $response = curl_exec($ch);

  $parsed_xml = simplexml_load_string($response); 

  @fclose($feedHandle);

  Header('Content-type: text/xml');
  print($parsed_xml->asXML());

I know that $parsed_xml === FALSE so I know the processing of the XML is not working. I suspect it has something to do with $feedHandle as I was previously receiving an error that said FeedContent in the array $params was empty. I know the xml is formatted correctly as I have printed it out and also directly put it in the required field and it worked fine. Also we used curl-ing in a similar file and it was working fine so I do not think that would be the issue either.