#42348 [Opn->Bgs]: xPath beginning with "//" searches whole document

ID: 42348 Updated by: rrichards@php.net Reported By: guenther dot stadler at gmx dot net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: SimpleXML related PHP Version: 5.2.3 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Behavior is according to XPath specs: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath The SimpleXMLElement used to call the xpath() method is used as the context node. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-20 10:57:38] guenther dot stadler at gmx dot net 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42348&edit=1