#26650 [Opn->Bgs]: Decimal entities

[moriyoshi]

 ID:               26650
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      msw at seebi dot de
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         DOM XML related
 Operating System: Win XP Prof
 PHP Version:      4.3.4
 New Comment:

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Any kinds of characters like "&" that have special meanings in the XML
document will be escaped during the serialization. There's no such
specification that defines entity-like strings to be handled
specially.

If you want to use strings that contain a special character which
cannot be represented by the encoding your script uses, or which cannot
be entered via your keyboard, you need to convert the string to the
appropriate encoding (UTF-8) first and then pass it to the DOM
facility, as DOM extension assumes all passed strings are encoded in
UTF-8 internally.


Previous Comments:
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[2003-12-22 08:18:21] msw at seebi dot de

As you suggested, I've checked out the new stable release. The result
is the same, each character '&' is converted into &amp.

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[2003-12-18 03:11:27] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip



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[2003-12-17 10:18:16] msw at seebi dot de

Description:
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When I'm producing a new xml file (domxml_new_doc())  which contains
some decimal entities (e.g. for the german characters ß Ä
ö and so on) and saving this file to disk (dump_file()) each
character '&' in each decimal entity is converted into &amp. This
appears with PHP 4.3.0 and 4.3.4 (Win). PHP 4.3.1, 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 not
tested. 

Reproduce code:
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<?php


$content="&#223; - &#196;";

$dom = domxml_new_doc("1.0");
$root = $dom->add_root("list");

 $ab=$dom->create_element("absatz");
 $ab->set_attribute("id","10");
 $text=$dom->create_element("text");
 $content=$dom->create_text_node($content);
 $text->append_child($content);
 $ab->append_child($text);
 $root->append_child($ab);

$dom->dump_file("test.xml", false, false);


?>


Expected result:
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the file test.xml should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<list><absatz id="10"><text>&#223; -&#196;</text></absatz></list>

Actual result:
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The actual result is:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<list><absatz id="10"><text>&amp;#223;
-&amp;#196;</text></absatz></list>


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