ID: 41976 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: stefan dot priebsch at e-novative dot de -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: JSON related Operating System: WinXP PHP Version: 5.2.3 New Comment:
var_dump((string) $xml); var_dump(json_encode($xml)); <-- you have to cast it to string explicitly, otherwise json_encode() will encode the object itself, not it's string representation. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-12 07:39:30] stefan dot priebsch at e-novative dot de Description: ------------ When json_encoding (Simple)XML data, CDATA sections are ignored. Reproduce code: --------------- $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><test>test</test>'); var_dump((string) $xml); var_dump(json_encode($xml)); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><test><![CDATA[test]]></test>'); var_dump((string) $xml); var_dump(json_encode($xml)); Expected result: ---------------- string 'test' (length=4) string '{"0":"test"}' (length=12) string 'test' (length=4) string '{"0":"test"}' (length=12) Actual result: -------------- string 'test' (length=4) string '{"0":"test"}' (length=12) string 'test' (length=4) string '{}' (length=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41976&edit=1