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

At 10:37 10.04.2003, Christian Stocker wrote:
>Hi
>
>It was very quiet on this list in recent weeks.
>[...]
>- use namespaces. Got already a patch from Tal for that.

If you need any help ask me :-)

>- 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

Maybe we could have an own dowmxml object type with special handlers.

>- 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.


I disagree, domxml is experimental, so do not make the mistake to have
an incompatible version shipped with php5. Why must php always be
different?

marcus