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Bug #37010 error while loading a string into dom object
Submitted: 2006-04-07 16:30 UTC Modified: 2006-04-07 18:20 UTC
From: hari_sayiri at rediffmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: windows 200
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-04-07 16:30 UTC] hari_sayiri at rediffmail dot com 
Description:
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I am posting a string from a vb.net pogram to a php program, the string is basically xml tags, i am able to get the string in php, but when u try to load the string using loadxml function i get the warning message 

Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [function.loadXML]: Start tag expected, '<' not found in Entity

and so i am unable to retrieve the tag attributes and values.

Reproduce code:
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$objDOM->loadXML($string);

where $string is <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><map><mapsize size='2500 2500'/> </map>

Expected result:
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i should get the attribute value into a variable by using dom functions 

$map = $objDOM->getElementsByTagName("map")->item(0);
$mapsize =  $map->getAttribute('size');

Actual result:
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getting the above warning message and 

Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttribute() on a non-object

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 [2006-04-07 16:36 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce
this bug ourselves. 

A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>,
is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external 
resources such as databases, etc.

If possible, make the script source available online and provide
an URL to it here. Try to avoid embedding huge scripts into the report.

Cannot reproduce.
 [2006-04-07 16:55 UTC] hari_sayiri at rediffmail dot com 
<?php
$objDOM = new DOMDocument();

$xml = $_POST['config'];
$objDOM->loadXML($string);
$map = $objDOM->getElementsByTagName("map")->item(0);
$mapsize =  $map->getAttribute('size');
echo $mapsize;
?>
 [2006-04-07 17:04 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
>$xml = $_POST['config'];

Could you please provide _complete_ script, that doesn't use any external data etc. ? Thanks.
 [2006-04-07 17:15 UTC] chregu@php.net 
$objDOM = new DOMDocument();

$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><map><mapsize
size='2500 2500'/> </map>";
$objDOM->loadXML($xml);
$map = $objDOM->getElementsByTagName("mapsize")->item(0);
$mapsize =  $map->getAttribute('size');
var_dump($mapsize);
?>

works for me perfectly.
 [2006-04-07 18:20 UTC] hari_sayiri at rediffmail dot com 
Yeah chregu, this way it works but when i get the string from some other program though the program send the same string it gives me the error message .....
 
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