--TEST-- Bug #42259 (SimpleXMLIterator loses ancestry) --EXTENSIONS-- simplexml --FILE-- EOF; $sxe = new SimpleXMLIterator($xml); $rit = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($sxe, RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY); foreach ($rit as $child) { $path = ''; $ancestry = $child->xpath('ancestor-or-self::*'); foreach ($ancestry as $ancestor) { $path .= $ancestor->getName() . '/'; } $path = substr($path, 0, strlen($path) - 1); echo count($ancestry) . ' steps: ' . $path . PHP_EOL; } ?> --EXPECT-- 3 steps: xml/fieldset1/field1 3 steps: xml/fieldset1/field2 4 steps: xml/fieldset2/options/option1 4 steps: xml/fieldset2/options/option2 4 steps: xml/fieldset2/options/option3 3 steps: xml/fieldset2/field1 3 steps: xml/fieldset2/field2