ID: 41976
User updated by: stefan dot priebsch at e-novative dot de
-Summary: json_encode ignores CDATA sections
Reported By: stefan dot priebsch at e-novative dot de
-Status: Bogus
+Status: Open
Bug Type: JSON related
Operating System: WinXP
PHP Version: 5.2.3
New Comment:
I re-opened the bug due to the discussion of bug #42001. json_encode()
does not work on nested XML with a string cast, but it does work without
a string cast. (Of course except for the CDATA problem that made me file
this bug in the first place.)
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><test><sub>test</sub><another>value</another><path><to
><tag>something</tag></to></path></test>');
var_dump(json_encode($xml));
var_dump(json_encode((string) $xml));
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><test><sub><![CDATA[test]]></sub><another>value</anoth
er><path><to><tag>something</tag></to></path></test>');
var_dump(json_encode($xml));
var_dump(json_encode((string) $xml));
Previous Comments:
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[2007-07-13 08:08:02] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Yes, and it will try to serialize the SimpleXML object, what won't
work, that's part of SimpleXML's behaviour
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[2007-07-13 06:33:16] stefan dot priebsch at e-novative dot de
Sorry, I disagree. This is a bug, not bogus.
The manual says that json_encode works on any type except resources.
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><test><![CDATA[test]]></test>');
var_dump(is_resource($xml));
outputs false, (which is obvious as SimpleXML is not listed in the list
of resource types). Thus SimpleXML is not a resource and must be
processed by json_encode() without a string cast. How would I supposed
to cast an XML tree to string anyway?
Please have a look at bug#38680, where a similar issue was discussed.
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[2007-07-12 09:08:39] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
var_dump((string) $xml);
var_dump(json_encode($xml)); <-- you have to cast it to string
explicitly, otherwise json_encode() will encode the object itself, not
it's string representation.
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[2007-07-12 07:39:30] stefan dot priebsch at e-novative dot de
Description:
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When json_encoding (Simple)XML data, CDATA sections are ignored.
Reproduce code:
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$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><test>test</test>');
var_dump((string) $xml);
var_dump(json_encode($xml));
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><test><![CDATA[test]]></test>');
var_dump((string) $xml);
var_dump(json_encode($xml));
Expected result:
----------------
string 'test' (length=4)
string '{"0":"test"}' (length=12)
string 'test' (length=4)
string '{"0":"test"}' (length=12)
Actual result:
--------------
string 'test' (length=4)
string '{"0":"test"}' (length=12)
string 'test' (length=4)
string '{}' (length=2)
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