Bug #62260 [Opn->Csd]: XPath does not search correctly in nodes with text and other nodes

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62260&edit=1 ID: 62260 User updated by: yajo dot sk8 at gmail dot com Reported by: yajo dot sk8 at gmail dot com Summary: XPath does not search correctly in nodes with text and other nodes -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: *XML functions Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.3.13 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Salathe, thanks for the point, you are right. Replacing the xquery by '//text()[contains(., "world")]/..' works perfectly. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-08 08:29:46] salathe@php.net I may be wrong, but my understanding is as follows. text() returns a list of node [1], whereas contains() expects two string arguments [2]. Because of this the list of text nodes is converted to a string, as with string(): "A node-set is converted to a string by returning the string-value of the node in the node-set that is first in document order. If the node-set is empty, an empty string is returned." [3] [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#path-abbrev [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#function-contains [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#function-string ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-08 07:34:19] yajo dot sk8 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ When a node has inner nodes and you want to search into its text value, only the first text node is selected. This is wrong because, as http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#path-abbrev says: > text() selects all text node children of the context node Test script: --------------- $xml = <<<END <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <first> Hello <second> world </second> world </first> </root> END; $doc = DOMDocument::loadXML($xml); $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc); foreach ($xpath->query('//*[contains(text(), "world")]') as $node) echo $node->nodeName . PHP_EOL; Expected result: ---------------- first second Actual result: -------------- second ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62260&edit=1