Re: Reworking XML_SVG to use DOM

Vasil Rangelov <boen.robot <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Normally, the answer to such questions is "ask the maintainer", but
> since this package is unmaintained, I say that if you take it over, it
> should be your call.
> 
> Personally, I approve of such a rewrite. But then again, it's clear
> that this lack of use of DOM was done for a reason - PHP 4 support. It
> would probably be best to make a new package, and link to it from
> XML_SVG as the new recommended way. I like the name "XML_SVG_DOM".

On further consideration, I'm leaning toward keeping the name XML_SVG. There 
don't seem to be any PEAR packages with "DOM" in their names, so I don't 
feel the need to use it here. And rather than creating a new package named 
XML_SVG2 as some packages have, I'd rather fork the source, increment the 
version number from 1.x to 2.x, and make it clear in the docs that 2.x is 
not compatible with PHP4. If development is necessary for PHP4 compatibility 
it can be done on the 1.x branch.

> BTW, if you're willing to break off from PHP 5.2, and into PHP 5.3+,
> you could also use namespaces and make a new package in PEAR2.

This could be the solution. I'll familiarize myself with the information on 
wiki.php.net and see if that's the way I want to go.

Thanks,
-David Leaman