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Bug #39164 SimpleXML : foreach create new node
Submitted: 2006-10-16 11:49 UTC Modified: 2006-12-13 03:07 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:4.3 ± 0.7
Reproduced:4 of 5 (80.0%)
Same Version:3 (75.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: php at bouchery dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: SimpleXML related
PHP Version: 5.1.6 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-10-16 11:49 UTC] php at bouchery dot com 
Description:
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When using "foreach" on inexisting node, a new node is create.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

$xml = simplexml_load_string('<root><a>Node a</a></root>');

foreach( $xml->b as $b );

echo $xml->asXML();

?>

Expected result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root><a>Node a</a></root>

Actual result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root><a>Node a</a><b/></root>

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 [2006-10-16 15:57 UTC] helly@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

.
 [2006-10-16 16:14 UTC] php at bouchery dot com 
I didn't see that in the documentation.
Even if it's written, it's a strange behaviour and shoud be a change request.

Reading data should not modify it.
 [2006-11-20 21:46 UTC] php at bouchery dot com 
If there is no nodes, I browse like an array, no data is display, but a node was created. If I do it twice, it display something !

Browsing tree MUST NOT create node.

Look at this :

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_string('<root></root>');
foreach( $xml->a as $a ) echo "a = $a\n";
foreach( $xml->a as $a ) echo "a = $a\n";
?>

A the second time, it display : "a ="

Sorry to insist, but it is not "normal" (and I can't see that in the documentation !!).
 [2006-12-12 23:37 UTC] joshi at sencore dot com 
After an afternoon of research I have discovered that:
  The resolution to Bug #35785 caused this problem.
  CVS Revision 1.192 (by Helly) was the commit.

I have to agree with php at bouchery dot com that this is unfortunate behavior.  Who would expect that their structure would change just because they read it?
 [2006-12-13 03:07 UTC] iliaa@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

This is intended behavior.
 [2012-06-22 19:22 UTC] matteosistisette at gmail dot com 
It's funny that this was insistingly claimed to be "intended behavior" and "not a 
bug" and then was silently fixed.
 
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