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

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 18:58, Marcus Börger wrote:
> 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 :-)

I will ;)


> >- 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?

What do you mean with incompatible? Incompatible to PHP4 or incompatible
to the DOM-Standard? I think now, maintaining BC for some of the more
obscure domxml/4 stuff should be done in PHP-Userland (maybe a PEAR
class) and not in domxml itself. This will allow much easier upgrading
to PHP5 if you use domxml now. But domxml/5 should follow the
Dom-Standard and not the domxml4-"standard".

about get_content() and alike. These functions are very useful and
faster than doing it the DOM-way. Of course, if you want to do it like
the dom-standard wants it (looping through all your children and extract
text-nodes instead of just call $node->get_content()), one should be
able to do that. Therefore I said, first implement the DOM-Standard,
then add those convenience method (which will not be much more than
copy&paste from the current code)

chregu

> 
> marcus
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