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Bug #41931 domdocument->savexml does not have formatoutput effect
Submitted: 2007-07-09 03:07 UTC Modified: 2007-07-09 16:13 UTC
From: c00lways at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.2.3 OS: windows xp prof
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-07-09 03:07 UTC] c00lways at gmail dot com 
Description:
------------
when:
domdocument->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
domdocument->formatoutput( true );
...
domdocument->savexml( domelement );

does not have formatoutput effect on savexml( domelement )

the output string is only 1 line...



Reproduce code:
---------------
$dom = new DomDocument("1.0", "iso-8859-1");
        
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput = true;

$domme = $dom->createElement( "xx" );



$domme->appendChild(new DOMElement("subxx"));

//try to force, but still same output
$domme->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$domme->formatOutput = true;

$dom->appendChild( $domme );

        
return $dom->saveXML( $domme );


Expected result:
----------------
<xx>
  <subxx />
</xx>

Actual result:
--------------
<xx><subxx /></xx>

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 [2007-07-09 11:52 UTC] rrichards@php.net 
You are probably looking at the results through a browser (or using a different script that is buggy) as the script (once you change the return to echo) outputs the correct results as expected.
 [2007-07-09 13:24 UTC] c00lways at gmail dot com 
No,
still not working:

example code:

$dom = new DomDocument();
        
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput = true;
        
$xdom = $dom->createElement( "yyy", "yyyy value" );

$xdom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$xdom->formatOutput = true;
        
$xchild = $dom->createElement( "OOO", "ooo value" );
        
$xdom->appendChild( $xchild );
        
$dom->appendChild( $xdom );
        
echo $dom->saveXML( $xdom );
 [2007-07-09 13:25 UTC] c00lways at gmail dot com 
No,
still not working
 [2007-07-09 14:11 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

and now you are using mixed content (yyy contains both textual and element nodes as children) so don't expect any formatting within there ... still bogus
 [2007-07-09 14:34 UTC] c00lways at gmail dot com 
is this still bogus?

it's weird, even without parameter in it, i still get 
non-formated output

$dom = new DomDocument();
        
        $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = true;
        $dom->formatOutput = false;
        
        $xdom = $dom->createElement( "yyy" );
        
        $xchild = $dom->createElement( "OOO" );
        
        $xchild2 = $dom->createElement( "subchild2" );
        $xchild3 = $dom->createElement( "subchild3", "sub3" );
        
        $xchild4 = $dom->createElement( "subchild4", "sub4" );
        
        $xchild5 = $dom->createElement( "subchild5" );
        
        $xchild2->setAttribute( "width", 200 );
        
        $xchild2->appendChild( $xchild3 );
        $xchild2->appendChild( $xchild4 );
        $xchild2->appendChild( $xchild5 );
        
        $xchild->appendChild( $xchild2 );
        
        
        $xdom->appendChild( $xchild );
        
        $dom->appendChild( $xdom );
        
        echo $dom->saveXML( );
 [2007-07-09 14:41 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

bogus (code is wrong). please do not re-open
 [2007-07-09 15:16 UTC] c00lways at gmail dot com 
HOW CAN YOU SAY IT'S WRONG?

http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_validate.asp
indicate my output from the code is valid xml..

 you guys are funny!
 [2007-07-09 16:13 UTC] c00lways at gmail dot com 
Sorry,
i 've forgotten to turn it back on for formatoutput.

my bad...
 
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