From: guenther dot stadler at gmx dot net Operating system: PHP version: 5.2.3 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: Results from xpath() cannot be deleted
Description: ------------ Elements of the array returned by xpath() cannot be deleted. I can change those elements, but deleting is impossible. How can I delete a node returned by xpath()? Is there a way to find out where the node I found is within the whole xml tree? Thanks, Günther. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xmlstr = <<<XML <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> <root> <movie>Movie One</movie> <movie>Movie Two</movie> </root> XML; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); $movs = $xml->xpath('//movie'); // Trying to delete the reference returned by xpath unset($movs[0]); // $movs[0] = NULL; doesn't work either // No changes echo $xml->asXML(); ?> Expected result: ---------------- <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <root> <movie>Movie Two</movie> </root> Actual result: -------------- <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <root> <movie>Movie One</movie> <movie>Movie Two</movie> </root> -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42437&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42437&r=mysqlcfg