Bug #44458 [Com]: Ampersand sign in SimpleXMLElement->addChild() causes incomplete XML

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44458&edit=1 ID: 44458 Comment by: phpbug at mailinator dot com Reported by: sergej at halogen-dg dot com Summary: Ampersand sign in SimpleXMLElement->addChild() causes incomplete XML Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: SimpleXML related Operating System: FreeBSD, Linux PHP Version: 5.2.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: That's reply not user friendly :) Absolutely. It's weired to give link to PHP manual. Why don't you give link to the page with description of this "feature"? http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.addchild.php - this page doesn't have any info about ampersand (not counting user comments). So, till addChild escapes angle brackets, quotes, but doesn't escape ampersand - I think every man of good sense will consider this as bug. (SimpleXML is Simple? ORLY?) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-03-18 12:13:22] 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 & must be escaped ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-03-17 19:29:53] sergej at halogen-dg dot com Description: ------------ SimpleXMLElement->addChild() causes warning message and produces incomplete XML in case when the second argument contains ampersand sign '&'. Text after ampersand is absent in output XML. In the same time escaping of other XML special symbols in tag body works OK. Also all XML special symbols in tag attributes are escaped OK. Reproduce code: --------------- <? $sxml=new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><test></test>'); // Quotes $sitem=$sxml->addChild('tag',"'"); $sitem->addAttribute('attr',"'"); $sitem=$sxml->addChild('tag','"'); $sitem->addAttribute('attr','"'); // Brackets $sitem=$sxml->addChild('tag','<'); $sitem->addAttribute('attr','<'); $sitem=$sxml->addChild('tag','>'); $sitem->addAttribute('attr','>'); // Ampersand $sitem=$sxml->addChild('tag','Smith & Wesson'); $sitem->addAttribute('attr','Smith & Wesson'); // Result XML print($sxml->asXML()); ?> Expected result: ---------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <test><tag attr="'">'</tag><tag attr="&quot;">"</tag><tag attr="&lt;">&lt;</tag><tag attr="&gt;">&gt;</tag><tag attr="Smith &amp; Wesson">Smith &amp; Wesson</tag></test> Actual result: -------------- PHP Warning: SimpleXMLElement::addChild(): unterminated entity reference Wesson in xml.php on line 14 Warning: SimpleXMLElement::addChild(): unterminated entity reference Wesson in xml.php on line 14 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <test><tag attr="'">'</tag><tag attr="&quot;">"</tag><tag attr="&lt;">&lt;</tag><tag attr="&gt;">&gt;</tag><tag attr="Smith &amp; Wesson">Smith </tag></test> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44458&edit=1