From: erudd at netfor dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version: 5.2.6
PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related
Bug description: SimpleXML interface incosnsistent
Description:
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Referencing bug #44458
Where in the documentation does it state that the strings must be escaped
when setting attributes or assigning values to children. I can find it
nowhere in the documentation, nor any examples where you show that you
"must escape text content" before entering it into the attribute or text
content of an element.
Also this behavior is inconsistent behavior as when you fetch the data it
is NOT escaped. So why should I need to escape the data when putting it
in?
This makes simpleXML not so simple as I have to perform extra "unexpected"
work while storing data into the xml document. Which I do not have to do
with the DOM extension.
Consistency should be high priority in this.. I should expect to retrieve
the same value out that I put in. the SimpleXML class should handle
encoding and decoding data for me so "I" don't have to think about it.
Reproduce code:
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$sxml=new SimpleXMLElement('<test></test>');
$sxml->addChild('child1','One & Two');
echo "Test 1:".(string)$sxml->child1."\n";
$sxml->addChild('child2','One & Two');
echo "Test 2:".(string)$sxml->child2."\n";
$sxml->addChild('child3');
$sxml->child3 = 'One & Two';
echo "Test 3:".(string)$sxml->child3."\n";
Expected result:
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Test 1:One & Two
Test 2:One & Two
Test 3:One & Two
Actual result:
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Test 1:One
Test 2:One & Two
Test 3:One & Two
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