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Bug #36263 DOM XML breaks on copyright character in text node
Submitted: 2006-02-02 19:13 UTC Modified: 2006-02-02 20:56 UTC
From: thom at genx dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: Linux (gentoo)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-02-02 19:13 UTC] thom at genx dot net 
Description:
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When a copyright character (ascii 169) is present in a string that is added as a text node to the DOM structure, the element is always empty.  The correct behavior is to encode the character as "©".

Reproduce code:
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<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
$t = $doc->appendChild($doc->createElement('test'));
$t->appendChild($doc->createTextNode('&' . chr(169) . '<'));

header('Content-type: text/xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>


Expected result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test>&amp;&copy;&lt;</test>

Actual result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test></test>

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 [2006-02-02 19:52 UTC] rrichards@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

utf8 encode the character. And no it wont output &copy; thats an HTML entity.
 [2006-02-02 20:47 UTC] thom at genx dot net 
Thank you.  That fixed the problem I was having.  I do apologize for having skipped over the user contributed notes, but I did try other encoding functions (just not utf8_encode()).  It is also strange that I did not get any warnings or errors as reported in the user notes (error reporting set at E_ALL).

Thanks again.
 
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