From: mbishton at yahoo dot com
Operating system: Windows XP Prof. Version 5.1.260
PHP version: 5.0.3
PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related
Bug description: cannot parse elements with dashes in names
Description:
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U.S. library of congress displays house voting activity in xml file. For
example: $xml =
simplexml_load_file('http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1999/roll610.xml') ;
Many of the elements have dashes in them. For example:
<totals-by-party-header>
<party-header>Party</party-header>
<yea-header>Yeas</yea-header>
<nay-header>Nays</nay-header>
<present-header>Answered “Present”</present-header>
<not-voting-header>Not Voting</not-voting-header>
Any reference to an element, like;
$xml->totals-by-party-header->party-header->yea-header
will not work.
Reproduce code:
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It works just fine if the element does not have dashes in it, like:
simplexml_load_file('http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1999/roll610.xml') ;
$vmeta = $xml->xpath('//vote-metadata' );
echo 'congress = ' . $vmeta[0]->congress ;
In the following example, $test will produce an error.
simplexml_load_file('http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1999/roll610.xml') ;
$meta = $xml->xpath('//totals-by-party' );
$test = $meta[1]->yea-total ;
Expected result:
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I expected it to return an array or the content of an element, depending
on what I was referencing.
Actual result:
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Notice: Use of undefined constant total - assumed 'total' in C:\Program
Files\Apache2\htdocs\test01.php on line 9
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