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ID: 39164 Comment by: matteosistisette at gmail dot com Reported by: php at bouchery dot com Summary: SimpleXML : foreach create new node Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: SimpleXML related Operating System: Windows XP PHP Version: 5.1.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: It's funny that this was insistingly claimed to be "intended behavior" and "not a bug" and then was silently fixed. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-12-13 03:07:17] il...@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php This is intended behavior. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-12-12 23:37:39] joshi at sencore dot com After an afternoon of research I have discovered that: The resolution to Bug #35785 caused this problem. CVS Revision 1.192 (by Helly) was the commit. I have to agree with php at bouchery dot com that this is unfortunate behavior. Who would expect that their structure would change just because they read it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-11-20 21:46:39] php at bouchery dot com If there is no nodes, I browse like an array, no data is display, but a node was created. If I do it twice, it display something ! Browsing tree MUST NOT create node. Look at this : <?php $xml = simplexml_load_string('<root></root>'); foreach( $xml->a as $a ) echo "a = $a\n"; foreach( $xml->a as $a ) echo "a = $a\n"; ?> A the second time, it display : "a =" Sorry to insist, but it is not "normal" (and I can't see that in the documentation !!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-10-16 16:14:31] php at bouchery dot com I didn't see that in the documentation. Even if it's written, it's a strange behaviour and shoud be a change request. Reading data should not modify it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-10-16 15:57:41] he...@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39164 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39164&edit=1
