Bug #72166 [NEW]: Empty SimpleXML elements

From: rmoisto at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: SimpleXML related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Empty SimpleXML elements Description: ------------ Creating a SimpleXMLElement on a soap envelope should not result in an empty object. It makes no sense. Also, now that I looked it up, empty SimpleXML objects cast to boolean will be false. That's so random and stupid. Why? ALL other objects cast to true. Test script: --------------- https://3v4l.org/vejJM -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72166&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72166&r=mysqlcfg