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Bug #45315 DOMElement removeChild don't work properly
Submitted: 2008-06-19 13:55 UTC Modified: 2008-06-19 14:42 UTC
From: bigben3333 at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-06-19 13:55 UTC] bigben3333 at gmail dot com 
Description:
------------
When i try to delete <li> nodes by removeChild, it delete the </li> too and i think it's anormal.

If i add a space before the a tag, there is no problem.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php

$html = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>
<ul>
	<li><a href="link1.php">ITEM 1</a></li>
	<li><a href="link2.php">ITEM 2</a></li>	
</ul>
</body></html>';


$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);

while ($nd = $doc->getElementsByTagName('a')->item(0))
	$nd->parentNode->removeChild($nd);	


echo $doc->saveHTML();

Expected result:
----------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>
<ul>
	<li></li>
	<li></li>
</ul>
</body></html>

Actual result:
--------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>
<ul>
	<li>
	<li>
</ul>
</body></html>

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 [2008-06-19 13:59 UTC] bigben3333 at gmail dot com 
error in the bug description
 [2008-06-19 14:04 UTC] bigben3333 at gmail dot com 
Error in the bug description : It's when i try to delete <a> node, not <li> node.
 [2008-06-19 14:42 UTC] chregu@php.net 
use ->saveXML() instead of ->saveHTML() if you want XHTML instead of 
HTML 4.

There is no bug, it's correct behaviour.
 
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