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Bug #48049 Will not parse tags with certain chars
Submitted: 2009-04-22 14:44 UTC Modified: 2010-10-22 10:28 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:4.2 ± 1.0
Reproduced:4 of 4 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (50.0%)
Same OS:2 (50.0%)
From: nickmaccarthy at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: SimpleXML related
PHP Version: 5.2.9 OS: Ubuntu 8.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-04-22 14:44 UTC] nickmaccarthy at gmail dot com
Description:
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Note:  SimpleXML has issues parsing tags with ":" in it.

GML tags for example are formatted like:
<gml:name>Foo</gml:name>.

In the SimpleXML Documentation, it states to put tags between {} that could contain chars. that could break the parser, like "-" for example. 

In our example below:
$xml->firstLayer->secondLayer->{'gml:name'} 

will not be parsed by SimpleXML, but SimpleXML will NOT throw an error or lead you to believe that it has NOT parsed it.  

I was parsing output from hostip.info which uses XML as an output with GML.

Here is an example of the XML I was working with when I cam a


Reproduce code:
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From manual page: book.simplexml
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$ipAddr = "209.240.56.78";
$data = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);

        $xml = @simplexml_load_string(str_replace(":", "_", $data));  //SimpleXML has issues parsing the ":", replacing it with underscore to make this work.

        $city = $xml->gml_featureMember->Hostip->gml_name;
        $country = $xml->gml_featureMember->Hostip->countryName;
        $country_abbrev = $xml->gml_featureMember->Hostip->countryAbbrev;

        $lat_long = $xml->gml_featureMember->Hostip->ipLocation->gml_PointProperty->gml_Point->gml_coordinates;

echo $city

Expected result:
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This is what XML looks like coming from the site:
<HostipLookupResultSet version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.hostip.info/api" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.hostip.info/api/hostip-1.0.0.xsd">
 <gml:description>This is the Hostip Lookup Service</gml:description>
 <gml:name>hostip</gml:name>
 <gml:boundedBy>
  <gml:Null>inapplicable</gml:Null>
 </gml:boundedBy>
 <gml:featureMember>
  <Hostip>
   <gml:name>(Unknown City?)</gml:name>
   <countryName>(Unknown Country?)</countryName>
   <countryAbbrev>XX</countryAbbrev>
   <!-- Co-ordinates are unavailable -->
  </Hostip>
 </gml:featureMember>
</HostipLookupResultSet>


Based on my echo of $city, I would expect to see:

Providence RI

Actual result:
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Blank - nothing.  

SimpleXML will not throw an error if it runs into an issue parsing anything with a ":" in the tag.



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 [2009-04-24 13:48 UTC] jani@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 the script requires a 
database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates 
all necessary tables, stored procedures etc.

Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report.


 [2009-05-02 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2010-10-22 01:17 UTC] nickmaccarthy at gmail dot com
Example Script was provided with the original request, but I will add another one.

<?php 
$ipAddr = "209.240.56.78";
$data = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);
$xml = @simplexml_load_string($data);
print_r($xml);
?>

You will notice that you will get no results from the print_r of $xml and there is no error message give.  This was tested again with php version 5.3.2.
 [2010-10-22 10:28 UTC] salathe@php.net
-Status: No Feedback +Status: Bogus
 [2010-10-22 10:28 UTC] salathe@php.net
The latest example script offered by nickmaccarthy works as expected. Nick, to see 
that the XML is received properly use:

    echo $xml->saveXML();

As for the original bug report, the reporter did not how to work with namespaces. 
This information is available in the documentation, see 
SimpleXMLElement::children().
 
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