PHP 4.0 Bug #8363: XML parser dies if character_data_handler set

From: bill@rsv.ricoh.com Operating system: RH Linux 6.2 PHP version: 4.0.4 PHP Bug Type: XML related Bug description: XML parser dies if character_data_handler set The following test case originally came from the online docs, but most recently from the xml2tree project I wrote (http://www.risource.org/phpTools/xml2tree/ ); two people have reported it broken with the release of 4.0.4. ----------- configuration ----------------- ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs ----------- test case --------- function characterData($parser, $data) { echo "in characterData got [$data]<br>"; } $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); // commment out the following line to prevent the crash xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData"); $xmlContent = "<mytag> <othertag> goo </othertag><yuck>glumph</yuck></mytag>"; echo "before data<br>"; flush(); // 4.0.4 dies here, but only if character_data_handler is set; // 4.0.3 is fine. if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $xmlContent, "yes" )) { die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser))); } echo "after data<br>"; flush(); xml_parser_free($xml_parser); -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8363&edit=1