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Bug #43221 SimpleXML adding default namespace in addAttribute
Submitted: 2007-11-09 02:48 UTC Modified: 2007-11-12 19:04 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 1 (0.0%)
From: jevon at jevon dot org Assigned: rrichards (profile)
Status: Closed Package: SimpleXML related
PHP Version: 5.2.4 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2007-11-09 02:48 UTC] jevon at jevon dot org
Description:
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Namespace support in SimpleXML is all screwy. In particular, you cannot add two differently-namespaced attributes to a SimpleXML node; the first one is lost.

Reproduce code:
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$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root />');
$n = $xml->addChild("node", "value");    // still fails even if we set a NS here
$n->addAttribute("a", "b");    // still fails even if we set a different NS here
$n->addAttribute("c", "d", "http://bar.com");
print_r($xml->asXml());

Expected result:
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<root xmlns:a="http://bar.com"><node a="b" a:c="d">value</node></root>

Actual result:
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<root><node xmlns="http://bar.com" a="b" c="d">value</node></root>

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 [2007-11-12 09:55 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Rob, could you take a look at it plz?
 [2007-11-12 14:41 UTC] hubert dot roksor at gmail dot com
It works just fine if you define your namespace beforehand.

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root xmlns:bar="http://bar.com"/>');
$n = $xml->addChild("node", "value");
$n->addAttribute("a", "b");
$n->addAttribute("c", "d", "http://bar.com");
print_r($xml->asXml());

I don't know, perhaps SimpleXML should raise a E_NOTICE on unknown namespace, but it's really a matter of good coding practice.

Btw, jevon, I don't recommend saying that something is "screwy" when filing bug reports, it doesn't really motivate developpers of said software to look into them ^^;
 [2007-11-12 15:10 UTC] rrichards@php.net
updated summary.

The bug is that an unprefixed attribute is being allowed to be created with a namespace and a default namespace is being added to the parent element.
 [2007-11-12 19:04 UTC] rrichards@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Note that all the examples here will now cause a warning due to trying to create invalid XML.
 
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