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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75137&edit=1 ID: 75137 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: marijn at suninet dot org Summary: Undocumented break from 5.6 using XML namespaces and assigning value by key. Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: SimpleXML related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 7.0.22 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: According to <https://3v4l.org/W5n3d> the behavioral change has been introduced in PHP 7.0.12. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-08-30 13:46:56] marijn at suninet dot org 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 this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75137&edit=1