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Bug #51154 SimpleXMLElement does not support dash in nodename
Submitted: 2010-02-26 08:38 UTC Modified: 2010-02-26 09:25 UTC
From: mr at inpay dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: SimpleXML related
PHP Version: 5.3.1 OS: Windows 7 Professional
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-02-26 08:38 UTC] mr at inpay dot com 
Description:
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Having a XML string, where one or more of the nodenames contains a - 
(dash) it is impossible to return that value, as dash is not allowed in 
attributes on an object. Consider replacing all dash'es with 
underscores.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
	$xml_string = "<response><http-code>200</http-code></response>";
	$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
	
	print_r($xml);
?>

Expected result:
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SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http-code] => 200 )

Actual result:
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SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http_code] => 200 )

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 [2010-02-26 08:40 UTC] mr at inpay dot com 
Oops, but accident i switched the "Expected result" and "Actual result"

Expected result should be SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http_code] => 200 )
Actual result should be SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http-code] => 200 )

Sorry for the inconvinience.
 [2010-02-26 09:14 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
This works fine, so long as you use the right syntax. Example 3 at 
http://au2.php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php covers this.

In your case, you would access http-code as follows:

$httpCode = $xml->{'http-code'};
 [2010-02-26 09:25 UTC] mr at inpay dot com 
Ohh, thanks alot. Wasn't aware of that syntax.
 
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