Bug #67572 [Ver->Dup]: SimpleXMLElement not parsing \n correctly (???)

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67572&edit=1 ID: 67572 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: ondrej@php.net Summary: SimpleXMLElement not parsing \n correctly (???) -Status: Verified +Status: Duplicate Type: Bug Package: SimpleXML related Operating System: any PHP Version: 5.6.0RC2 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: After further investigation it turned out that this is a duplicate of bug #66084. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-05-26 19:28:24] cmb@php.net Related To: Bug #61335 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-05-26 19:06:17] cmb@php.net Related To: Bug #66084 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-05-26 12:16:43] cmb@php.net Related To: Bug #62639 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-08 16:10:04] csuffin at gracenote dot com I have a work-around, of sorts. I hope someone is investigating this bug because it is pretty awful. I do not know how to solve the foreach() loop presented in ondrej's post, but if you're accessing elements individually, it seems that leaving off the "[0]" subscript works. Don't ask me why! See the test case below. If you run this test with the assignment from "A" rather than "A[0]", it works. <?php function testfunc($str){ echo "Testing on \"$str\"\n"; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($str); $a = $xml->A[0]; //$a = $xml->A; echo "$a"; if ($a) { $result = 1; } else { $result = 0; } echo " $result \n\n"; return $result; } $r1 = testfunc ("<head><A>hello</A></head>"); $r2 = testfunc ("<head><A>first</A><A>hello</A> </head>"); if ($r1 && !$r2) echo " Test fails: white space makes 'A' element disappear! \n"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-07-08 04:46:03] yohgaki@php.net http://3v4l.org/7vXEg It seems it's broken since 5.4.0. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67572 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67572&edit=1