Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] XML in PHP5

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 13:33, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> At 16:02 30-1-2003, you wrote:
> 
> >For PHP5, I'd like to take the domxml extension, and rework it (still
> >using the libxml and libxslt libraries) and create a "über-extension,"
> >which incorporates libxml and libxslt to become the default (and only)
> >XML extension distributed with PHP.
> 
> I like the idea, but IMHO the combination XML and PHP5, shouldn't be focused
> around an extension. Instead it should take the same direction as streams.

I like the idea, but don't have an idea, how this could be done in an
efficient manner for DOM-based (which also means XPath) stuff, without
introducing too many slowing down layers.

But what looks quite interesting is:
http://xmlsoft.org/xmlreader.html

On top of that, it should be quite easy to introduce some kind of
XML-"stream" PHPAPI. AFAIK, it's only for reading XML documents (hence
the name..:) ), but to come up with something similar for writing could
be done as well (or checking C# docu how they do it.)

For DOM-based things, we could certainly expose some of the libxml2
based dom-API as PHPAPI, but if this makes a lot of sense... mmmh, can't
judge that right now. It's more of a question, if it's useful for other
extensions if they would use this PHPAPI instead of directly using the
libxml2 API (I don't think, it's feasible to use an own
tree-implementation instead of the one provided by libxml2, but maybe
i'm just narrow minded ;) )

chregu


> 
> My reasoning is as follows:
> All XML related/derived technologies, are focused around an abstraction of
> data which we know as XML. It has certain rules to recognize the format and
> how it should be composed. These rules apply to all related technologies.
> 
> Therefore, PHP should have 'builtin XML support', on the PHPAPI level.
> Whenever an extension needs to read XML input, it can use that API to get
> the information outof it, that it needs. For this to work, I think that
> SAX and XPATH should be core components, tied in with streams to resolve
> any references.
> 
> How this should be worked out, is of later concern, but in order for XML to
> seemlessly integrate with php, one should not rely on extensions IMHO.
> 
> 
> 
> Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards,
> 
> Webmaster IDG.nl
> Melvyn Sopacua
> 
> 
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