From: Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6.3 PHP version: 5.3.6 Package: XML Reader Bug Type: Bug Bug description:XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency
Description: ------------ There are three methods available to retrieve an attribute - getAttribute, getAttributeNo, getAttributeNs. It seems to be natural to expect the similar kind of behavior from them in case when no attribute by given parameters is found. Which is not the case - first one returns NULL, the rest - string(0) "". Test script: --------------- <?php $reader = new XmlReader(); $reader->xml('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><a y="" z="1"></a>'); $reader->read(); var_dump($reader->getAttribute('x')); var_dump($reader->getAttributeNs('x', 'http://example.com')); var_dump($reader->getAttributeNo(2)); ?> Expected result: ---------------- NULL NULL NULL Actual result: -------------- NULL string(0) "" string(0) "" -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55285&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55285&r=mysqlcfg