Doc #75137 [NEW]: Undocumented break from 5.6 using XML namespaces and assigning value by key.

From: marijn at suninet dot org Operating system: Linux PHP version: 7.0.22 Package: SimpleXML related Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Undocumented break from 5.6 using XML namespaces and assigning value by key. Description: ------------ Hi, I've been looking around but I haven't been able to find anything. If you assign a value to an XML element by using an array key when XML namespaces are used the behaviour is changed between PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0. This is something we couldn't anywhere in the documentation around backwards incompatibility. It could have something to do with "Changes to the handling of indirect variables, properties, and methods" but from my understanding reading that section that is about when you use dynamic variable assignments which is not the case here. In the expected/actual result you can see the difference. The expected result is what you get when running the sample code in PHP 5.6 and the actual result is what you get when running the sample code in PHP 7.0. My guess is that this is not a bug but rather an undocumented backward incompatible change between the PHP versions. Regards, Marijn. Test script: --------------- <?php $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<xml xmlns="http://xml" xmlns:foo="http://foo" xmlns:bar="http://bar" />'); $foo = $xml->addChild('foo', null, 'http://foo'); $tag = $foo->addChild('bar', null, 'http://bar'); $foo->bar[0] = 'Hello World!'; $dom = dom_import_simplexml($xml)->ownerDocument; $dom->formatOutput = true; echo $dom->saveXML(); Expected result: ---------------- $ php-5.6 test.php <?xml version="1.0"?> <xml xmlns="http://xml" xmlns:foo="http://foo" xmlns:bar="http://bar"> <foo:foo> <bar:bar>Hello World!</bar:bar> </foo:foo> </xml> Actual result: -------------- $ php-7.0 test.php <?xml version="1.0"?> <xml xmlns="http://xml" xmlns:foo="http://foo" xmlns:bar="http://bar"> <foo:foo> <bar:bar/> <foo:bar>Hello World!</foo:bar> </foo:foo> </xml> -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75137&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75137&r=mysqlcfg