Bug->Req #49731 [Opn]: Illegal XML characters allowed in (not stripped from) text nodes.

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49731&edit=1 ID: 49731 Updated by: yohgaki@php.net Reported by: moltendorf at gmail dot com Summary: Illegal XML characters allowed in (not stripped from) text nodes. Status: Open -Type: Bug +Type: Feature/Change Request Package: DOM XML related Operating System: * -PHP Version: 5.2.11 +PHP Version: * Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Numeric Character Reference (NCR) or any conversion breaks apps. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-01 07:00:29] moltendorf at gmail dot com Made title more correct, and the last comment was intended to replace the existing description for this bug; as invalid characters should be stripped entirely, or an exception should be thrown (and the text node not be added), and/or some sort of method should be included to strip the illegal characters from the input without throwing an exception. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-01 06:51:00] moltendorf at gmail dot com Adding illegal characters to a text node when saved as XML are not stripped. This breaks the XML, causing it to be "not well-formed" when viewed by standards-compliant browsers, like Firefox. Even converting them to NCRs breaks the XML in most browsers. For reference, the NCR of the "illegal character" included in the reproduce code is &#6; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-01 06:47:18] moltendorf at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Adding illegal characters to a text node when saved as XML are not either converted to NCRs, or stripped. This breaks the XML, causing it to be "not well-formed" when viewed by standards-compliant browsers, like Firefox. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php header ('Content-Type: text/xml'); $document = new DOMDocument ('1.0', 'utf-8'); $element = $document -> createElement ('element'); $text = $document -> createTextNode (''); // Please copy and paste this line directly; it contains special characters that may not display correctly; and are invalid in XML based on the W3C specification. $element -> appendChild ($text); $document -> appendChild ($element); echo $document -> saveXML ( ); Expected result: ---------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <element/> Actual result: -------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <element></element> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49731&edit=1