Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62203&edit=1
ID: 62203 Comment by: schalk at unf dot edu Reported by: phpdev at mailmetrash dot com Summary: xpath doesn't return tag values Status: Open Type: Bug Package: SimpleXML related PHP Version: 5.4.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I checked both the current 5.3 and 5.4 source for the xpath simplexml function and they are the same. So, this means that the error is somewhere else. Could this be because of the change in how 5.4 deals with arrays? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-16 21:48:08] schalk at unf dot edu I just checked and this is not fixed in 5.5.0alpha4 either! Do I really have to go back to 5.3? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-16 21:37:41] schalk at unf dot edu When is this going to be fixed. I have reproduced it in 5.4.11 and it is kind of a major bug that has caused me a significant amount of wasted debug time. Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-01 07:43:32] phpdev at mailmetrash dot com Description: ------------ In PHP 5.4 xpath() returns SimpleXMLObjects which casted to array give empty arrays. If tags have text values they aren't present in object like in PHP 5.3. Test script: --------------- $xml = simplexml_load_string(' <person> <profile> <name>PHP developer</name> </profile> </person>'); // get all names $xml = $xml->xpath('/person/profile/name'); // get first result $xml = reset($xml); // show result print_r($xml); Expected result: ---------------- In PHP 5.3 the (expected) result is SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => PHP developer ) Casting this to an array will result: array(0 => 'PHP developer') which is ok. Actual result: -------------- In PHP 5.4 the result is SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) If we cast this to an array will result an empty array, but we expected text values. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62203&edit=1