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ID: 49490 Updated by: rricha...@php.net Reported by: olav dot morken at uninett dot no Summary: XPath namespace prefix conflict -Status: Assigned +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: DOM XML related Operating System: Linux (Debian) PHP Version: 5.3.0 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: This bug has been fixed in SVN. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. Automatic namespace registration really wasn't a good idea from the get go. Performance starts taking a hit the deeper in the tree a context node. The patch in the bug report was not used; rather a new third argument has been added to the query() and evalute() methods, which allows automatic registration of the context node to be disabled. For BC reasons auto registration is enabled by default. When auto registration is disabled and context nodes are used XPath performance will be increased. i.e. echo($xp->query('//prefix:root', null, false)->length . "\n"); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-05-04 17:41:51] rricha...@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of rrichards Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=298974 Log: fix bug #49490 (XPath namespace prefix conflict) add test ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-17 11:14:50] thomas at weinert dot info It looks like DOMXPath->evaluate()/DOMXPath->query() registers the namespace prefixes of the given context and overrides any definition from DOMXPath->registerNamespace(). PHP should not register any namespaces from the context or at least prefer manual registrations over automatic. Reproduce code: --------------- $dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadXML( '<foobar><a:foo xmlns:a="urn:a">'. '<b:bar xmlns:b="urn:b"/></a:foo>'. '</foobar>' ); $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); //get context node and check "a:foo" $context = $dom->documentElement->firstChild; var_dump($context->tagName); // try to override the context node $xpath->registerNamespace('a', 'urn:b'); var_dump( $xpath->evaluate( 'descendant-or-self::a:*', $context )->item(0)->tagName ); // use a prefix not used in context $xpath->registerNamespace('prefix', 'urn:b'); var_dump( $xpath->evaluate( 'descendant-or-self::prefix:*', $context )->item(0)->tagName ); Expected result: ---------------- string(5) "a:foo" string(5) "b:bar" string(5) "b:bar" Actual result: ---------------- string(5) "a:foo" string(5) "a:foo" string(5) "b:bar" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-07 08:41:26] olav dot morken at uninett dot no Description: ------------ When processing an XML document with namespaces, an XPath query for a node with a different namespace but the same namespace prefix fails. This appears to be a conflict between the XPath namespaces and the document namespaces. It works if either: - The prefix in the query is replaced with a prefix that doesn't exist in the document. - If the prefix in the query matches the prefix in the document. This was tested with: - PHP 5.3 from debian experimental: 5.3.0-3 - libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-2.1 Reproduce code: --------------- $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadXML('<prefix:root xmlns:prefix="urn:a" />'); $xp = new DOMXPath($doc); $xp->registerNamespace('prefix', 'urn:b'); echo($xp->query('//prefix:root')->length . "\n"); Expected result: ---------------- It should not find the root node, since we ask for a node in a different prefix. I.e. it should print '0'. Actual result: -------------- It finds the root node, i.e. it prints '1'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49490&edit=1