Zend_XmlRpc_Value is not standard compliant

[graywolf]

Zend_XmlRpc_Value is not standard compliant, as it fails to parse this xml:

<array>
    <data>
        <value>a</value>
        <value>b</value>
    </data>
</array>

if however works for

<array>
    <data>
        <value><string>a</string></value>
        <value><string>b</string></value>
    </data>
</array>

But standard (http://xmlrpc.scripting.com/spec.html) specifies "If no type is indicated, the type is string.".

Zend version: 1.12.3
PHP version: 5.5.5

[graywolf]

Solution is to add this

$value = str_replace(array('<value>', '</value>'), '', $xml->asXML());

Created pull request with the fix.

[weierophinney]

Just out of curiousity, what XML-RPC client were you working with that wasn't wrapping strings with <string>? The XML-RPC component has existed since before the 0.2.0 pre-release version (I contributed the server), and this is the first I've seen anybody point out that clause in the spec -- in almost 8 years! :)

[graywolf]

It's some java backend in our company, but I've no idea what it uses for xmlrpc