Bug->Req #63589 [Nab]: XMLWriter handling of double-quotes not consistent with other libxml extensions

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63589&edit=1 ID: 63589 User updated by: franck at cassedanne dot com Reported by: franck at cassedanne dot com Summary: XMLWriter handling of double-quotes not consistent with other libxml extensions Status: Not a bug -Type: Bug +Type: Feature/Change Request Package: XML Writer Operating System: BSD, Linux, OSX PHP Version: 5.3.19, 5.4.9 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: All the other libxml based extensions out there (SimpleXML, DOMDocument, Tidy) which are all supposedly also forwarding their calls to that library, are consistent in the matter. Only XMLWriter is acting differently -- maybe this should be changed to "Feature/Change Request" if it is not considered a Bug. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-10-02 07:36:51] mike@php.net It just forwards the call to libxml's xmlwriter, so nothing we can do about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-23 19:35:32] franck at cassedanne dot com The same issue is present on PHP 5.4.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-23 18:56:09] franck at cassedanne dot com Description: ------------ XMLWriter differs in its handling of double-quotes when compared to other libxml based PHP extensions. Double-quotes using XMLWriter are converted to htmlentities (i.e. '&quot;'). Using SimpleXML or DOMDocument double-quotes stay unconverted. It seems to me that XMLWriter should not be converting double-quotes either. Tidy seems to also agree -- try the following in a CLI: $ echo "<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><tag>&quot;</tag>" | tidy -xml -q Maybe introducing a flag/constant such as ENT_NOQUOTES to toggle the conversion of these on and off might be pertinent. Test script: --------------- <?php $x = new XMLWriter; $x->openMemory(); $x->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); $x->writeElement('tag', '"'); $x->endDocument(); echo $x->flush(); Expected result: ---------------- <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><tag>"</tag> Actual result: -------------- <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><tag>&quot;</tag> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63589&edit=1