ID: 47209 Updated by: rricha...@php.net Reported By: queen dot zeal at gmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: DOM XML related PHP Version: 5.2.8 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 DOM is meant to handle XML conforming data (not broken HTML). It's not a libxml bug either. The HTML load functionality take best guess at trying to fix developer tag soup. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-01-24 15:30:37] queen dot zeal at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I'm trying to get a list of all the input elements of a form tag and am having some difficulty doing so due to a PHP bug. First, here's my XHTML: <div> <form action=""> <input type="text" name="a" /> </div> <div> <input type="text" name="b" /> </div> <div> <input type="submit" /> </form> </div> It isn't semantically correct XHTML but that doesn't stop web developers from coding like that. Anyway, in both Firefox and IE, if you visit a webpage containing the above, and hit the Submit button, the resultant URL will have both a and b defined via GET. I'd like to be able to get a list of the same input parameters that the browser does for a given form element. I had been using "// form[1]//input" as an XPath query, but that doesn't work, here, because not all of the inputs are children of the form element. Indeed, if I use DOMDocument::saveHTML(), I get something more like this: <div> <form action=""> <input type="text" name="a" /> </form> </div> <div> <input type="text" name="b" /> </div> <div> <input type="submit" /> </div> Before you go off and pass the buck to the libxml developers, without even reviewing this, consider, first, that it might not be a bug in libxml, but rather, with PHP's bindings to libxml. Further, if you're going to be pass the buck, do so, yourself. I don't know C or C++ or whatever language libxml was originally intended to be used with. Since I don't know C / C++, if I were to file a bug report with the libxml developers, it'd have to be in PHP, which they may or may not know, themselves. As such, it wouldn't be a very useful bug report, whereas if the person who implemented the libxml bindings for PHP filed it, they could make it a whole lot more useful. Maybe a good fix for PHP (that wouldn't involve the libxml people) would be to use a different XML parsing engine. Maybe use the HTML rendering engine that Firefox uses - Gecko. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47209&edit=1
