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Bug #67440 append_node of a DOMDocumentFragment does not reconcile namespaces
Submitted: 2014-06-13 21:36 UTC Modified: -
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Status: Closed Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.5.13 OS:
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 [2014-06-13 21:36 UTC] php at deep-freeze dot ca
Description:
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Namespaces don't get resolved when working with DOMDocumentFragments.

If you create more than one child element in a document fragment, and then append it into a document, only the first node will resolve its namespaces, and even then, only if fragment->children->item(0) is a DOMElement.

This means that 
$element->appendChild($fragment);

will give different results than
$childNodes = iterator_to_array($fragment->childNodes);
foreach ($childNodes as $childNode) $element->appendChild($childNode)

When they in effect do the same thing; 
it's documented that that is fundamentally what appendChild(DOMDocumentFragment) does in bug #53890 when dismissing that bug as invalid.  
And is representative of how it's effectively implemented in the ext source.


The reason for this bug is the combination of:
in file php-src/ext/dom/node.c:
_php_dom_insert_before( ... )
_php_dom_append_node( ... )
   // Element: new_child = xmlAddChild(nodePointer, childToInsert)
   // Fragment: new_child = _php_dom_insert_fragment(nodePointer, ..., childToInsert)
   dom_reconcile_ns(nodeDocument, new_child)

The Function "dom_reconcile_ns" consits of only
 if (nodePointer->type === XML_ELEMENT_NODE) { ... } 
Thus it only works on the one node being pointed at, and it's tree. (understandable)

The Function "_php_dom_insert_fragment" on the other hand causes the problem.
It simply adds the fragment into the linked list, and returns the first child.
     newchild = fragment->children
     prevSib->next = newChild
     newchild->prev = prevSib
     newchild->next = nextSib
     nextSib->prev = newChild
return newchild; // The first child of the fragment

THUS THE BUG:
Only the first child of an DocumentFragment will reconcile it's namespace in respect to it's current insertion location, the rest will be ignored.  This could potentially create invalid XML output, if a namespace is resolved in a fragment, and is appended outside that valid scope without being resolved.




Test script:
---------------
<?php
function createDocument() {
  $document = new DOMDocument();
  $document->loadXML('<?xml version="1.0"?><rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns"></rootElement>');
  $fragment = $document->createDocumentFragment();
  $fragment->appendChild($document->createTextNode("\n"));
  $fragment->appendChild($document->createElementNS('http://example/ns', 'myns:childNode', '1'));
  $fragment->appendChild($document->createTextNode("\n"));
  $fragment->appendChild($document->createElementNS('http://example/ns', 'myns:childNode', '2'));
  $fragment->appendChild($document->createTextNode("\n"));
  return array($document, $fragment);
}

function case1() {
  list($document, $fragment) = createDocument();
  echo PHP_EOL, "CASE 1", PHP_EOL;
  $document->documentElement->appendChild($fragment);
  echo $document->saveXML();
}

function case2() {
  list($document, $fragment) = createDocument();
  $childNodes = iterator_to_array($fragment->childNodes);
  foreach ($childNodes as $childNode) {
    $document->documentElement->appendChild($childNode);
  }
  echo $document->saveXML();
}

function case3() {
  list($document, $fragment) = createDocument();
  $fragment->removeChild($fragment->firstChild);
  $document->documentElement->appendChild($fragment);
  echo $document->saveXML();
}

case1(); echo PHP_EOL, PHP_EOL;
case2(); echo PHP_EOL, PHP_EOL;
case3(); echo PHP_EOL, PHP_EOL;


Expected result:
----------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">
<myns:childNode>1</myns:childNode>
<myns:childNode>2</myns:childNode>
</rootElement>


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">
<myns:childNode>1</myns:childNode>
<myns:childNode>2</myns:childNode>
</rootElement>


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns"><myns:childNode>1</myns:childNode>
<myns:childNode>2</myns:childNode>
</rootElement>


Actual result:
--------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">
<myns:childNode xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">1</myns:childNode>
<myns:childNode xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">2</myns:childNode>
</rootElement>


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">
<myns:childNode>1</myns:childNode>
<myns:childNode>2</myns:childNode>
</rootElement>


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootElement xmlns:myns="http://example/ns"><myns:childNode>1</myns:childNode>
<myns:childNode xmlns:myns="http://example/ns">2</myns:childNode>
</rootElement>


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 [2023-06-04 14:35 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of nielsdos
Revision: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/b1d8e240e688cae810c83b364772bf140ac45f42
Log: Fix bug #67440: append_node of a DOMDocumentFragment does not reconcile namespaces
 [2023-06-04 14:35 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed
 
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