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Request #57280 option to return end tag instead of isEmptyElement
Submitted: 2006-10-05 06:41 UTC Modified: 2006-10-05 07:05 UTC
From: skissane at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: xmlReader (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.1.4 OS: N/A
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-10-05 06:41 UTC] skissane at gmail dot com 
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My life (and my code) would be so much easier if there was an option to make xmlreader do what I would expect, which is return two nodes for an empty tag -- one start, one end -- rather than just a start node with isEmptyElement. Probably this would need to be a flag of some sort, because people may have written code which relies on the current behaviour, as broken (in my view) as it is.

The problem is suppose I write some code to parse the XML document: <foo></foo>. I could write code that checks for the </foo> tag, and that works fine. Someone else then changes that to: <foo/>. Suddenly my code isn't working.

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 [2006-10-05 07:05 UTC] rrichards@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug.

That is the expected behavior (see docs at xmlsoft.org or even .NET documentation). An empty element tag is a specific type of tag in XML. You need to handle both cases in your code.
 
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