Can't get XML elements with default namespace #134

orasik · 2015-07-23T08:37:31Z

Hi,
When there is an element with default namespace that doesn't have a prefix, XMLContext.php can not find it. This is a bug in xpath itself when there is no prefix. Check the first answer:
XPath in SimpleXML for default namespaces

So I have xml similar to the the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<University>
      <ContactInformation>
            <Name>University Name</Name>
            <Address>University Address</Address>
      </ContactInformation>
      <body>
            <Colleges xmlns="http://ws.someuni.com/ver1">
                  <Entries countEntries="4">
                        <college name="college1"/>
                        <college name="college2"/>
                        <college name="college3"/>
                        <college name="college4"/>
                  </Entries>
            </Colleges>
      </body>
</University>

If I try to get countEntries attribute or Entries element using behatch context, it will not return anything.
I have tried to use rootns as default namespace but that didn't work either.

I made a fix to this issue by adding namespace(s) with counters inside getNamesapces method.

// file = Sanpi\Behatch\Context\XmlContext
private function getNamespaces(\DOMDocument $dom = null)
    {
        $xml = $this->getSimpleXml($dom);
        $namespaces = $xml->getNamespaces(true);
        // fix
        $counter = 0;
        foreach($namespaces as $key => $value ){
            if(empty($key)) {
                $counter++;
                $correctedNamespaces['ns'.$counter] = $value;
            } else {
                $correctedNamespaces[$key] = $value;
            }
        }
        return $correctedNamespaces;
    }

Then to get countEntries you can use the following phrase:

 Then the XML attribute "countEntries" on element "//University/body/ns1:Colleges/ns1:Entries" should be equal to "4"

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Can't get XML elements with default namespace #134

Can't get XML elements with default namespace #134

orasik commented Jul 23, 2015

Can't get XML elements with default namespace #134

Can't get XML elements with default namespace #134

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orasik commented Jul 23, 2015