#22530 [Opn->Asn]: append_child does not unlink node

ID: 22530 Updated by: chregu@php.net Reported By: bobsledbob at yahoo dot com -Status: Open +Status: Assigned Bug Type: DOM XML related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.3.0 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: chregu New Comment: yep. wrong. it just unlinks the node, if it's a child of the parent node ($node1 in your case). I'll fix that. chregu Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-04 00:53:02] bobsledbob at yahoo dot com Quoth the manual: (PHP >= 4.3) The new child newnode is first unlinked from its existing context, if it already existed in a document. Therefore the node is moved and not copies anymore. This is the behaviour according to the W3C specifications. If you want to duplicate large parts of a xml document, use DomNode->clone_node() before appending. It seems that the appended node is not unlinked in 4.3.0 as the manual suggests? Here's my test script: $xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>"; $xml .= "<root>"; $xml .= "<node1 />"; $xml .= "<node2 />"; $xml .= "</root>"; $dom =& domxml_open_mem($xml); $root =& $dom->document_element(); $nodeArray =& $root->child_nodes(); $node1 =& $nodeArray[0]; $node2 =& $nodeArray[1]; $node1->append_child($node2); echo str_replace(" ", "&nbsp;&nbsp;", str_replace("\n", "<br>\n", htmlentities($dom->dump_mem(1)))); echo "Php Version: " . phpversion() . "<br>\n"; And here's my results: <?xml version="1.0" ?> <root> <node1> <node2/> </node1> <node2/> </root> Php Version: 4.3.0 Thanks. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22530&edit=1