Bug #55285 [NEW]: XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency

From: Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:18:25 +0000
Subject: Bug #55285 [NEW]: XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency
Groups: php.bugs 
Request: Send a blank email to php-bugs+get-162182@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message 
From:             
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6.3
PHP version:      5.3.6
Package:          XML Reader
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency 

Description:
------------
There are three methods available to retrieve an attribute - getAttribute,
getAttributeNo, getAttributeNs.
It seems to be natural to expect the similar kind of behavior from them in
case when no attribute by given parameters is found.
Which is not the case - first one returns NULL, the rest - string(0) "".

Test script:
---------------
<?php
  $reader = new XmlReader();
  $reader->xml('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><a
y=""
z="1"></a>');
  $reader->read();
  var_dump($reader->getAttribute('x'));
  var_dump($reader->getAttributeNs('x', 'http://example.com'));
  var_dump($reader->getAttributeNo(2));
?>

Expected result:
----------------
NULL
NULL
NULL

Actual result:
--------------
NULL
string(0) ""
string(0) ""

-- 
Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55285&edit=1
-- 
Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4):            https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=trysnapshot54
Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3):            https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=trysnapshot53
Try a snapshot (trunk):              https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=trysnapshottrunk
Fixed in SVN:                        https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=support
Expected behavior:                   https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=mysqlcfg

Thread (2 messages)

« previous php.bugs (#162182) next »