domxml in PHP5

Hi

It was very quiet on this list in recent weeks. I was and still am very
busy with other projects. In the meantime Rob Richards jumped on the
bandwagon and provided a lot of memleak fixes for domxml (PHP 4.3.2 will
have all those fixes plus finally domdocument->free() as an userland
method. hooray ;) )

We were discussing by private mail, how we should proceed further. I
think, the goal mentioned in previous mails were pretty much hight to
reach in the time PHP5 will be released. So I suggest, we stick to the
following TODO list for PHP 5.0.0 and try to incorporate the more
advanced feature for a later release. Of course, if there are people who
want to contribute this stuff before, I have no problem with that.

Here's my suggestion (and I think, if there are more people than just me
contributing, we should be able to reach this)

- Go over the whole "memory/free" stuff and clean it up.

- Seperate php_domxml.c in different files. maybe just the different
modules (xslt/xpath/dom/parser/etc..), or maybe even for each class
(document, node, text, etc) a file (not shure, what's more feasible)

- use namespaces. Got already a patch from Tal for that.

- use setters/getters. $domtext->data = "hello" should be possible with
PHP5 (the properties in domxml at the moment are a joke and shouldn't
be used..), this will allow much more dom-compliance

- Implement first most of the dom-standard. Then we add some of the
convenience methods libxml2 has (get_content() et al. They are not in
the dom-standard, but make the life for domxml-programmers a lot easier
and they are also much faster than using the "traditional" dom methods)

- Lastly, if there's time, add as much BC as possible. Or we just
provide a PEAR-wrapper, which makes transition from domxml/PHP4.3 to
domxml/PHP5 easier.

chregu