Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] Can SimpleXML still return all namespaces?

Answering some of these questions on this list in case anyone else has some opinions/input on them.

> I was also interested in the behaviour described in
> 
> _http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/01/15/simplexml.html?page=2_
>
> of a beta version of SimpleXML. It seems to me that this would be quite
> useful, despite the risks. And if you know the details of the documents
> you are dealing with, you can evaluate the risks anyway.
> 
> The upshot of all this is that I think a solution to all these
> problems could be defining two new methods:
>
> setElementNamespaceMode($ns,$is_prefix)
> setAttributeNamespaceMode($ns,$is_prefix)
>
> This would set the namespace for all lookups, iterations, etc. 'from
> that point onwards'. 

This is exactly the purpose of the children() and attributes() methods.
They are used to set a namespace scope to work within.

> The behaviour I want could be signalled by passing
> some constant that evaluates to an internal, illegal namespace name. The
> current behaviour could be signalled by set...NamespaceMode('',true) to
> check for an empty prefix (or another constant). 
. . .

So what you are proposing is just a way to be able to work with SimpleXML in a completely namespace ignorant way?
Basically, ignore all namespaces/prefixes and work directly with local names only?

Rob