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Bug #79701 getElementById does not correctly work with duplicate definitions
Submitted: 2020-06-15 02:17 UTC Modified: 2020-06-15 08:23 UTC
From: beberlei@php.net Assigned:
Status: Verified Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 7.2.31 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2020-06-15 02:17 UTC] beberlei@php.net
Description:
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A DOM id element is supposed to be unique, but sometimes the world is messy. The DOM specification says:

> The getElementById(elementId) method, when invoked, must return the first element,
> in tree order, within this’s descendants, whose ID is elementId, and null if there
> is no such element otherwise. 

PHP uses libxmls ID Map functionality, which does not allow duplicates. The return value of "xmlAddID" is not checked for the error, so elements with duplicate ID don't cause a problem.

However if you remove the first element with an ID, or re-order the elements, then the specifications assumption of returning the first element in tree order does not work anymore.

Test script:
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<?php

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$root = $dom->createElement('html');
$dom->appendChild($root);

$el1 = $dom->createElement('p1');
$el1->setAttribute('id', 'foo');
$el1->setIdAttribute('id', true);

$root->appendChild($el1);

$el2 = $dom->createElement('p2');
$el2->setAttribute('id', 'foo');
$el2->setIdAttribute('id', true);

$root->appendChild($el2);
unset($el1, $el2);

$root->removeChild($dom->getElementById('foo'));

var_dump($dom->getElementById('foo'));


Expected result:
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Returns Element <p2 id="foo" />

Actual result:
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NULL

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 [2020-06-15 08:23 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2020-06-15 08:23 UTC] cmb@php.net
Confirmed: <https://3v4l.org/Ols6m>
 
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