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Bug #49666 DomElement setAttribute() invalid charater
Submitted: 2009-09-25 10:09 UTC Modified: 2009-09-25 11:14 UTC
From: ralph at bean-it dot nl Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.3.0 OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-09-25 10:09 UTC] ralph at bean-it dot nl 
Description:
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An invalid character error is raised when I want to set an attribute on 
a DomElement.

When I put my code in a try ... catch everything works fine

Reproduce code:
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$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');
$node = $doc->createElement('test');
$newnode = $doc->appendChild($node);
$newnode->setAttribute("name application", "MyApp");

Raises an error

$newnode->setAttribute("0001", "File");
Also raises an error
		

Expected result:
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The attribute is set on my DomElement

Actual result:
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'DOMException' with message 'Invalid Character Error'

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 [2009-09-25 10:43 UTC] sjoerd@php.net 
Thank you for your report.

The behavior you describe is not a bug. XML attributes can not contain spaces and can not start with a number. See the XML spec for more information:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#attdecls
 [2009-09-25 11:14 UTC] ralph at bean-it dot nl 
Yes I have seen this, but this error was not raised before we went to php 5.3. The application and the setAttribute works fine till now. I was wandering why.

But thanks for the reply
 
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