note 66467 deleted from ref.simplexml by bjori

Note Submitter: chad 0x40 herballure 0x2e com Reason: in docs ---- There is some serious weirdness in the way PHP 5.1.4 is handling non-existent children in the XML tree. <?php $xmlstr = "<html><body/></html>"; $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr); var_dump($xml->body); // Empty node => empty SimpleXMLElement var_dump($xml->head); // Nonexistent node => empty SimpleXMLElement var_dump($xml->head->title); // Child of nonexistent node => NULL (!) var_dump($xml->head->title->foo); // NULL + Notice: Trying to get property of non-object var_dump(count($xml)); // int(1) var_dump(count($xml->head)); // int(0) var_dump(count($xml->body)); // int(1) !! - see below foreach($xml as $child) { var_dump(count($child)); // int(0) for <body/> now!! } ?> Be aware of these behaviors if you're trying to run clean under E_ALL.