Issues with SimpleXML for development

20 years ago by Rowan Lewis — view source — reply

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First off, forgive me if I'm using the wrong list.

Anyhow, I've been developing a program that uses XML to store cache
files, and I've noticed a highly painfully issue with the SimpleXML
extension:

It converts <textarea></textarea> (and many other like valid XML and
HTML elements) to <textarea /> (only valid XML).

This, for anyone dealing with XHTML, is a big issue, as it will cause
any page to break, one solution would be to use XSL, but the PHP5
extension for that doesn't support XHTML, and causes many more issues.

There is a bug about this marked 'bogus', but I'd just like to point
out that this bug is not bogus and is a severe hindrance to anyone
using SimpleXML.

Bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32307

Rowan Lewis (AKA. The Wolf)

20 years ago by Bastian Grupe — view source — reply

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Hi Rowan,

the PHP5 XSL extension does support XHTML and HTML.

And yes, you should use a more general/help list for that kind of issues.

Rowan Lewis wrote:

First off, forgive me if I'm using the wrong list.

Anyhow, I've been developing a program that uses XML to store cache
files, and I've noticed a highly painfully issue with the SimpleXML
extension:

It converts <textarea></textarea> (and many other like valid XML and
HTML elements) to <textarea /> (only valid XML).

This, for anyone dealing with XHTML, is a big issue, as it will cause
any page to break, one solution would be to use XSL, but the PHP5
extension for that doesn't support XHTML, and causes many more issues.

There is a bug about this marked 'bogus', but I'd just like to point
out that this bug is not bogus and is a severe hindrance to anyone
using SimpleXML.

Bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32307

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Rowan Lewis (AKA. The Wolf)

20 years ago by Christian Stocker — view source — reply

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First off, forgive me if I'm using the wrong list.

Anyhow, I've been developing a program that uses XML to store cache
files, and I've noticed a highly painfully issue with the SimpleXML
extension:

It converts <textarea></textarea> (and many other like valid XML and
HTML elements) to <textarea /> (only valid XML).

What's exactly your problem?

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_string('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">;

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; <body> <textarea/> <p/> <br/> </body> </html>');

print ( $xml->body->asXML());

$ php5 xhtml.php

Anyway, not a PHP issue, libxml2 handles all that, so maybe upgrading
libxml2 helps...

chregu

This, for anyone dealing with XHTML, is a big issue, as it will cause
any page to break, one solution would be to use XSL, but the PHP5
extension for that doesn't support XHTML, and causes many more issues.

There is a bug about this marked 'bogus', but I'd just like to point
out that this bug is not bogus and is a severe hindrance to anyone
using SimpleXML.

Bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32307

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Rowan Lewis (AKA. The Wolf)