#42348 [NEW]: xPath beginning with "//" searches whole document

From: guenther dot stadler at gmx dot net Operating system: PHP version: 5.2.3 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: xPath beginning with "//" searches whole document Description: ------------ When using // at the beginning of an xpath-query, not only the children of the current SimpleXMLElement are searched (as stated in the manual), but the whole XML document instead. (So, actually, it might only be a documentation issue...) If this is expected behaviour, how is one supposed to search all <bar> elements, no whether where they are - but only under the current item (whatever it might be)? Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xmlstr = <<<XML <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> <root> <foo id="foo_1"> <node> <bar>1</bar> <bar>2</bar> </node> </foo> <foo id="foo_2"> <node> <bar>3</bar> <bar>4</bar> </node> </foo> </root> XML; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); $foo_list = $xml->xpath('//foo'); $foo = $foo_list[0]; // now we have the node with id="foo_1" $bar_list = $foo->xpath('//bar'); foreach($bar_list as $this_bar) echo "$this_bar "; ?> Expected result: ---------------- 1 2 Actual result: -------------- 1 2 3 4 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42348&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42348&r=mysqlcfg