Bug #36795 [Com]: Inappropriate "unterminated entity reference" in DOMElement->setAttribute

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36795&edit=1 ID: 36795 Comment by: justgig8 at gmail dot com Reported by: john at carney dot id dot au Summary: Inappropriate "unterminated entity reference" in DOMElement->setAttribute Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: DOM XML related Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.*, 6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Still facing this issue. & character in text is leading to this E_WARNING. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-06-27 18:01:21] hanskrentel at yahoo dot de This is bogus because & as character is needed in the attribute values to start an entity to express character references. Otherwise it would not be possible to set the superset of all XML attribute values (AttValue; http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT- AttValue), the expression wouldn't be distinct. Like you need to write "\t" in a PHP string to express a tab and therefore "\\" to express the slash. I hope this clarifies this a bit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-08 18:33:10] matteosistisette at gmail dot com I'm still observing this issue (by the way, why is it marked as "bogus"?). Even the simplexml property accessors does give me the warning, such as: $a['b'] = "& < '"; // GENERATES THE WARNING!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-09-11 01:40:13] abxccd at msn dot com I am still seeing this bug in PHP 5.3.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-23 03:30:34] jan-bugreport at gmx dot de With simpleXML, addChild($name, $value) works really weird (tested on 5.3.1 on win): in the value, the characters < and > are correctly esacped to &lt; and &gt; but ampersands cause the "unterminated entity reference" message. I would understand if it escaped nothing, or if it escaped everything, but this seems weird. Also, no matter what the final decision about this bug will be, this should be documented really well in the SimpleXML docs. It is confusing and I could imagine it could cause security issues in some applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-22 01:02:27] steven at navolutions dot com I also had this issue, one thing that might not have been included in the original reproducing of the code is that the DOMElement may have been extended. I know mine is extended so Reproduce the code by extending the DOMElement class. I also extended the DOMDocuement class so try that too. So no the status is not Bogus, just to tested thoroughly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=36795 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36795&edit=1