From: matt at waggoner dot com Operating system: All PHP version: 5.2.6 PHP Bug Type: XMLRPC-EPI related Bug description: xmlrpc_encode_request does not encode numeric keys properly
Description: ------------ This issue has been marked as bogus or wontfix before, but I believe this is a bad idea and that this issue should be fixed. Bug #21949 ends with this comment: "Not a bug, XML-RPC is ambigous as to the value that the <name> field can contain. However, all indications point to it being a string value, in XML this represents a value that is non-numeric." This is false; XML's string type is not restricted to "non-numeric" values. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#string says that a string's value space is "the set of finite-length sequences of characters (as defined in [XML 1.0 (Second Edition)]) that match the Char production". The "Char production" is the following grammar: char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] The characters 0-9 are within the [#x20-#xD7FF] range, ergo the string XML datatype can validly contain a set of only numeric characters such as "123", which eliminates that objection. The XML-RPC spec does indeed not specify what value a <name> element may contain, but it seems fairly useless to simply drop numeric keys; a string is a string regardless of whether it contains letters or not. Re bug #37746: "It has been this way for a long time" is not a valid reason to avoid fixing this (see any number of longstanding bugs in PHP's history); "this might break existing code" is also not a valid reason (see any number of backward-incompatible changes in PHP's history). Please fix this bug. Reproduce code: --------------- See bugs #21949 and #37746. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45915&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45915&r=mysqlcfg
