Hello D.,

Friday, May 12, 2006, 5:29:42 AM, you wrote:

> I've recently upgraded to PHP 5.1.4 from 5.1.2 and noticed that in 5.1.3 
> there were changes made to SimpleXML.  Now, when I touch an element 
> which didn't used to exist, instead of acting like it didn't exist, it 
> creates it!  That's horrible!

> Well, this used to work:

> <?php
> $xmlstr = "<test><item>1</item></test>";
> $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
> print_r($xml);

> foreach ($xml->nonexist as $nonexist) {
>     // do nothing
> }
> print_r($xml);
?>>

> But now, the output of the print_r is different when I do it the second 
> time because the foreach statement created nodes:

> SimpleXMLElement Object
> (
>     [item] => 1
> )
> SimpleXMLElement Object
> (
>     [item] => 1
>     [nonexist] => SimpleXMLElement Object
>         (
>         )
> )

> I think that's a bug and not a feature.  Why was this changed?

It is called write support. I think we are going to add a flag
so that one can specify whether write support is enabled or not.

-- 
Best regards,
 Marcus                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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