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Bug #78500 Invalid tags in DOM prevent attribute manipulation of siblings
Submitted: 2019-09-06 00:43 UTC Modified: 2019-09-06 00:50 UTC
From: joey dot sabey at gmx dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 7.3.9 OS: linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2019-09-06 00:43 UTC] joey dot sabey at gmx dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: https://php.net/intro.dom
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When loading 'dirty' input that contains invalid tags (e.g. <foo>qwerty</foo>) with DOMDocument::loadHTML() it becomes impossible to manipulate the attributes of siblings of the invalid tag.

Test script:
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<?php

$works = <<<'HTML'
<html>
    <body>
        <p><a href="http://example.com" id="thelink" class="alink">link</a></p>
    </body>
</html>
HTML;

$broken = <<<'HTML'
<html>
    <body>
        <p><foo>qwerty</foo><a href="http://example.com" id="thelink" class="alink">link</a></p>
    </body>
</html>
HTML;

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($works);

$attr = $dom->getElementsByTagName('p')[0]->childNodes->item(0)->attributes;

print_r($attr);

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($broken);

$attr = $dom->getElementsByTagName('p')[0]->childNodes->item(0)->attributes;

print_r($attr);

?>


Expected result:
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length of DOMNamedNodeMap is 3 in both

Actual result:
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length of DOMNamedNodeMap is 3 (correct number of attributes) when there is no invalid tags in the parent tag, but is 0 when an invalid tag is a sibling

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 [2019-09-06 00:50 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2019-09-06 00:50 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Don't you mean ->item(1)?
 [2019-09-06 22:23 UTC] a at b dot c dot de 
Note that you would have got exactly the same result if you had tried inserting a _valid_ element (like <b>) instead of an invalid one, only without the invalid tag warning.
 
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