Hi

Ok, it's committed

chregu

On 01.09.11 13:10, Rob Richards wrote:
> imo new behavior in 5.3
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:35 AM, Christian Stocker <christian.stoc...@liip.ch> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> It's about the two tests in
>>
>> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/simplexml/tests/008.phpt
>> and
>> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/simplexml/tests/bug48601.phpt
>>
>> which contractited themself and we had back and forth commits due to this.
>>
>> So we had the following history
>>
>> 5.3.0 old behaviour
>> ...
>> 5.3.3 new behaviour
>> ...
>> 5.3.7 old behaviour
>> ...
>> 5.4.0 new behaviour
>>
>>
>> The main question now is, should we introduce back the new behavior in
>> the 5.3 line? Since the new behaviour was already there since more than
>> a year, but now isn't, i'm not sure, what to do.
>>
>> The good point about the new behaviour is that it's almost BC, so going
>> from the old to the new shouldn't cause much problems, but vice versa it
>> does. The reason is that if you do an valid xpath query which returns
>> zero results, the old behaviour returned false, the new one returns an
>> empty array, so before 5.3.3 you had to write
>>
>> ***
>> $res = $sx->query("/some/xpath");
>>
>> if ($res) {
>>   foreach($res as $node) {}
>> }
>> ***
>>
>> Which still will work with the new behaviour, but that "if" is not
>> really needed with the new behaviour, so going back to the old one may
>> break if nothing is found (there may be problems when you asked for
>> "zero-results" with checking if $res is false)
>>
>> Anyway, I'd appreciate some opinions about introducing back the new
>> beehaviour in 5.3 or not (I guess 5.3.8 wasn't the last 5.3 release :))
>>
>> chregu
>>
>>
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