#44108 [NEW]: SimpleXMLelement has no children() on element with only attributes?

From: php dot net at trueprices dot net Operating system: Debian PHP version: 5.2.5 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: SimpleXMLelement has no children() on element with only attributes? Description: ------------ SimpleXMLelement has no children() on element with only attributes? I try to retreive an element by xpath which goes without problems, The child elements it contains (same namespace) are all empty element with only attributes. However the returned SimpleXML element does not contain any children? so i'm unable to retreive there attributes. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $data = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" > <wsdl:portType name="qxqPortType"> <wsdl:operation name="SOAP_set"> <wsdl:input message="SetRequest"/> <wsdl:output message="SetResponse"/> </wsdl:operation> <wsdl:operation name="SOAP_get"> <wsdl:input message="GetRequest"/> <wsdl:output message="GetResponse"/> </wsdl:operation> </wsdl:portType> </wsdl:definitions>'; echo '<pre>'; $xml = simplexml_load_string($data); if ($xml) { $res2 = $xml->xpath('//wsdl:portType/wsdl:operation'); //print_r($res); foreach ($res2 as $child2) { //print_r($child2->children()); echo 'child2'.PHP_EOL; print_r($child2->getName().PHP_EOL); print_r(count($child2->children()).PHP_EOL); print_r($child2); foreach ($child2->children() as $child3) { echo 'child3'.PHP_EOL; print_r($child3->getName().PHP_EOL); print_r(count($child3->children()).PHP_EOL); print_r($child3); foreach ($child3->children() as $child4) { echo 'child4'.PHP_EOL; print_r($child4->getName().PHP_EOL); print_r(count($child4->children()).PHP_EOL); print_r($child4); } } } } echo '</pre>'; ?> Expected result: ---------------- child2 & child3 & child4 should be printed.. child2 operation 2 SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [name] => SOAP_set ) ) child2 operation 2 SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [name] => SOAP_set ) /* 2 another simplexml element input & output with children & attributes*/ ) Actual result: -------------- Only child2 prints with 0 children child2 operation 0 SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [name] => SOAP_set ) ) child2 operation 0 SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [name] => SOAP_get ) ) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44108&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44108&r=mysqlcfg