Bug #41208 [Com]: saveXML() fails with iso-8859-1 input

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41208&edit=1 ID: 41208 Comment by: r dot spliet at student dot tudelft dot nl Reported by: scott at realorganized dot com Summary: saveXML() fails with iso-8859-1 input Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: DOM XML related Operating System: Mac OS X, Linux PHP Version: 5.2.1 Assigned To: rrichards Block user comment: N New Comment: I'm suffering from the same "problem", with the exception that my ISO-8859-1 data comes from MySQL. Using utf8_encode() does solve the issue, so I would like to turn this bug into a feature request. It seems a bit odd to me to encode my data in UTF-8 just to let DOMDocument decode it jiffy's later. I would personally like DOMDocument to know what type of data I'm presenting it instead of assuming UTF-8 (which is imho just wrong). Perhaps with a parameter in createElement, perhaps with an attribute. I'll leave that to the PHP engineers. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-27 09:27:30] rrichards@php.net 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 You need to utf-8 encode/decode data: utf8_encode(chr(200))/utf-8_decode($data) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-26 23:45:02] tony2001@php.net Rob, please verify this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-26 22:17:58] scott at realorganized dot com change: $domfather->saveXML() to: $domfather->saveXML($node) in the example code and execute and no echo at all - no error, nothing. It's like it crashed or something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-26 21:53:54] scott at realorganized dot com Description: ------------ When using input encoding of charset=iso-8859-1 domDocument() fails to output the ascii code 200 (e grave) using saveXML() Reproduce code: --------------- Here's some example code that shows the problem: <? header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); $domfather = new domDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1'); $node = $domfather->createElement("xxx", chr(200)); $domfather->appendChild($node); echo "<pre>"; echo htmlspecialchars($domfather->saveXML()); $nodelist = $domfather->getElementsByTagName("xxx"); $data = $nodelist->item(0)->nodeValue; echo $data; echo strlen($data); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I was expecting the saveXML() to output the e grave symbol (ascii 200) iso-8859-1 character mapping is here: http://old.no/charmap/iso-8859-1.html and shows that ascii is completely valid. Please notice that the data is provided correctly when I ask for it by node. the failure is just when using the saveXML() function. Actual result: -------------- The output from my server is below. When I retrieve the node's data back, it is as expected. But it's the saveXML() code that seems to have a problem. I suspect the problem is with the utf-8 -> iso-8859 conversion before output. Warning: DOMDocument::saveXML() [function.DOMDocument-saveXML]: output conversion failed due to conv error in /Library/Tenon/ WebServer/WebSites/realtyjuggler.com/subscription/test.php on line 23 Warning: DOMDocument::saveXML() [function.DOMDocument-saveXML]: Bytes: 0xC8 0x3C 0x2F 0x78 in /Library/Tenon/WebServer/WebSites/ realtyjuggler.com/subscription/test.php on line 23 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <xxx>È1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41208&edit=1