Xml::arrayToXml fails on nested arrays

Start at the Xml::arrayToXml helper and reproduce the nested-array example from the issue. Inspect the recursive branch where the nested element is passed before it exists, then verify that the example produces the expected nested XML without PHP errors.

The helper function arrayToXml has code indended to handle nested arrays, but currently always throws PHP errors. This means nested arrays can't be used when testing soap functions with array data either.

Reproduce

Code:

$dom = new \DOMDocument();
$array = [
    'foo' => [
        'bar' => '1'
    ]
];
echo \Codeception\Util\Xml::arrayToXml($dom, $dom, $array)->saveXML();

Expected output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<foo><bar>1</bar></foo>

Result:

Undefined property: DOMDocument::$foo

Cause

When the function encounters an array, it calls itself to parse the array, with $domNode->$el as the new $domNode parameter. The problem is that that node ->$el will never exist, since that's the node this function was supposed to create in the first place.

Fix

Create a new element first, to pass to the recursive call, and then append that new node to the xml structure.

Current code:

            if (is_array($val)) {
                self::arrayToXml($xml, $domNode->$el, $val);
            } else {
                $domNode->appendChild($xml->createElement($el, $val));
            }

Fixed code:

            if (is_array($val)) {
                $elementNode = $xml->createElement($el);
                self::arrayToXml($xml, $elementNode, $val);
                $domNode->appendChild($elementNode);
            } else {
                $domNode->appendChild($xml->createElement($el, $val));
            }

Alternatively, we could make it a little more consistent by always creating and appending the element in the same way, and only set the value inside the if-condition. That code would look like this:

            $elementNode = $xml->createElement($el);
            if (is_array($val)) {
                self::arrayToXml($xml, $elementNode, $val);
            } else {
                $elementNode->nodeValue = $val;
            }
            $domNode->appendChild($elementNode);

Both solutions result in working code for nested arrays.