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Bug #72166 Empty SimpleXML elements
Submitted: 2016-05-05 15:00 UTC Modified: 2016-05-05 22:43 UTC
From: rmoisto at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: SimpleXML related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-05-05 15:00 UTC] rmoisto at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Creating a SimpleXMLElement on a soap envelope should not result in an empty object. It makes no sense.

Also, now that I looked it up, empty SimpleXML objects cast to boolean will be false. That's so random and stupid. Why? ALL other objects cast to true.

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https://3v4l.org/vejJM

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 [2016-05-05 22:43 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2016-05-05 22:43 UTC] requinix@php.net 
SimpleXML does a lot of "magic" with some PHP behaviors. Most of it depends on the current working namespace, which is initially ""; methods like children() and attributes() will return a new object with a different namespace.

Dumping the contents of the object will only show you XML nodes within the current namespace.
https://3v4l.org/Nmf0G

An object's boolean value depends on whether there are XML nodes in the current namespace.
https://3v4l.org/6YOWK
 
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