Doc #68540 [Opn->Ver]: Documenattion about checking SimpleXML needs clarification

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68540&edit=1 ID: 68540 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: seo at gacek dot vot dot pl Summary: Documenattion about checking SimpleXML needs clarification -Status: Open +Status: Verified Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree that the wording of the documentation is unfortunate: | SimpleXML objects created from empty tags An empty tag would most likely be something like <>. Speaking of empty elements would be better, but would not take into account that an empty element may have attributes (not properties), and in this case casting the respective SimpleXML to bool would also yield true. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-12-03 10:47:56] seo at gacek dot vot dot pl Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/language.types.boolean --- Documentation needs some more information, to clarify when simplexml object is considered true. More information here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27157104/1430632 Tried adding it to documentation <warning> <simpara> <literal>SimpleXML</literal> evaluates to &true; only if it has child nodes or properties - only then object is not considered empty. To check if <literal>SimpleXML</literal> object has &string; value you have to cast it to &string; </simpara> </warning> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68540&edit=1