Bug #53406 [NEW]: inconsistent behavior with booleans in writeElement() method

From: Operating system: ANY PHP version: 5.3.3 Package: XML Writer Bug Type: Bug Bug description:inconsistent behavior with booleans in writeElement() method Description: ------------ I use xmlWriter a lot, but I found a quite inconsistent behavior with booleans in xmlWriter. When filling an element/namespace with a boolean : - if the boolean is true, it is automatically casted to an int (1), which is a legal representation of the boolean. - if the boolean is false, no value is given to the element/attribute. I made a little script to reproduce the problem.It runs well in CLI Test script: --------------- <?php xml(true); xml(false); function xml($bool) { $xml = new XmlWriter(); $xml->openMemory(); $xml->setIndent(true); $xml->startElement('root'); $xml->writeAttribute('boolAttr', $bool); $res = $xml->writeElement('myboolean',$bool); $xml->endElement(); echo $xml->flush().PHP_EOL; var_dump($res); } Expected result: ---------------- <root boolAttr="1"> <myboolean>1</myboolean> </root> bool(true) <root boolAttr="0"> <myboolean>0</myboolean> </root> Actual result: -------------- <root boolAttr="1"> <myboolean>1</myboolean> </root> bool(true) <root boolAttr=""> <myboolean></myboolean> </root> -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53406&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53406&r=mysqlcfg