Req #73175 [Opn->Csd]: DOMDocument::saveHTML's void elements list is not updated

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73175&edit=1 ID: 73175 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: duhamelantoine1995 at gmail dot com Summary: DOMDocument::saveHTML's void elements list is not updated -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: DOM XML related Operating System: Debian 8 PHP Version: 7.0.11 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is a known limitation of libxml2, and apparently there are no plans to ever fix this. There is not much we can do about it. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-09-26 09:42:40] duhamelantoine1995 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ The DOMDocument::saveHTML and DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile methods does not product valid HTML when using void elements introduced in HTML5. The official HTML definition give a complete list of the void elements in HTML: https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#syntax-elements > The following is a complete list of the void elements in HTML: > > area, base, br, col, command, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, > wbr In my tests (PHP 5&7, Debian 8 and Windows 10), PHP DOM render the following tags as non-void elements: - command - embed - keygen - source - track - wbr Test script: --------------- $implementation = new DOMImplementation; $dom = $implementation->createDocument( null, 'html', $implementation->createDocumentType('html', null, null) ); $dom->formatOutput = true; $body = $dom->createElement('body'); $div = $dom->createElement('div'); $dom->documentElement->appendChild($body); $body->appendChild($div); $voidElem = ['area', 'base', 'br', 'col', 'command', 'embed', 'hr', 'img', 'input', 'keygen', 'link', 'meta', 'param', 'source', 'track', 'wbr',]; foreach ($voidElem as $tagName) { $div->appendChild($dom->createElement($tagName)); } echo $dom->saveHTML(); Expected result: ---------------- <!DOCTYPE html> <html><body><div> <area> <base> <br><col> <command><embed><hr> <img><input><keygen><link> <meta> <param> <source><track><wbr> </div></body></html> Actual result: -------------- <!DOCTYPE html> <html><body><div> <area> <base> <br><col> <command></command><embed></embed><hr> <img><input><keygen></keygen><link> <meta> <param> <source></source><track></track><wbr></wbr> </div></body></html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73175&edit=1