Bug #53406 [Opn->Bgs]: inconsistent behavior with booleans in writeElement() method

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53406&edit=1 ID: 53406 Updated by: cataphract@php.net Reported by: dubois dot benjamin at me dot com Summary: inconsistent behavior with booleans in writeElement() method -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: XML Writer Operating System: ANY PHP Version: 5.3.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is not inconsistent, it follows the general rules used for boolean -> string conversions in PHP: >php -r "echo false, \"\ndone\";" done >php -r "echo true, \"\ndone\";" 1 done Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-25 20:22:51] dubois dot benjamin at me dot com 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53406&edit=1