note 86679 added to function.simplexml-element-addChild

As noted by zspencer at zacharyspencer dot com, addChild with an empty string causes a redundant node to be added. This was screwing up our web services xml->JSON conversion - the following hack seems to fix it, use at your own risk... if($sv == null) { $child = $node->addChild($k, '<blank>'); $child = ''; } else { $node->addChild($k, $sv); } ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 80.6.91.225 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-addChild.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/86679 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86679 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/86679 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php