fillField function adds backslashes to an XML feed

[smrpr]

When trying to fill a textbox with an XML I provide, the pasted text is not my original XML, but the XML with backslashes added before the double-quotes.

I've opened a question in StackOverflow with further info:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23336764/mink-xml-handling-not-as-expected-adds-backslashes-to-feed

[stof]

Can you build a small reproducing testcase ?

[aik099]

Here is the example code (copied over from StackOverflow discussion):

public function replaceField($field)
    {
        $baseText = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<RiskAssessmentReply xmlns="http://test.com" >
    <!-- ExternalId of the Order --> 
    <OrderId>TO_REPLACE</OrderId>
    <RiskInfo>
        <Actions>
            <SystemAction>SystemAction</SystemAction>
            <FinalAction>FinalAction</FinalAction>
        </Actions>
        <Score SystemScore="0"/>
    </RiskInfo>
    <!-- One of Accept, Manual_Accept, Reject, Cancel, or Ignore --> 
    <ResponseCode>Accept</ResponseCode>
    <StoreId>TESTSTORE</StoreId>
</RiskAssessmentReply>';

        $textWithOrderId = preg_replace('/TO_REPLACE/', $GLOBALS['ORDER_ID'], $baseText);
        $this->getSession()->getPage()->fillField($field, $textWithOrderId);
    }

Then form gets submitted and back in PHP @samuel-redsauce is getting <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> (note extra \ before ") instead of <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.

It's either US encoding given value in the odd manner (should have used htmlspecialchars not addslashes) or it's DomCrawler messing with it. Either way it needs to be investigated.

In meanwhile @samuel-redsauce have used stripcslashes on that fields value in $_POST and no longer have this issue obviously.