From: php-bugs-0705 at nico dot edtinger dot at
Operating system: irrelevant
PHP version: 5CVS-2007-05-08 (snap)
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Writing empty tags with Xmlwriter::WriteElement[ns]
Description:
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Currently Xmlwriter::WriteElement() and Xmlwriter::WriteElementNS()
require the forth argument $content and are therefor not able to output
empty tags. Someone has to use XmlWriter::startElement(); and
XmlWriter::endElement(); to output an empty tag. That's a bit cumbersome.
It would be nice if $content could be made optional or set to null to
output an empty tag. I know it's the documented behavior, that it always
write a a full element tag and libxml2 does have the same behavior.
Nevertheless it would be a nice addition to be able to write less code for
a short tag.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$xml = new XmlWriter();
$xml->openMemory();
$xml->startDocument();
$xml->startElement('test');
$xml->writeElement('foo', null);
$xml->startElement('bar');
$xml->endElement('bar');
$xml->endElement();
echo $xml->outputMemory();
?>
Expected result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test><foo/><bar/></test>
Actual result:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test><foo></foo><bar/></test>
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Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=dst
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Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41326&r=mysqlcfg
