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

At 10:37 4/10/2003, Christian Stocker wrote:

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>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)

- ability to register an output_encoding handler and default output
   encoding. Provide default 'mbstring','iconv','recode' on a C level.

I've been working with domxml together with mysql the last couple of
days, and since MySQL doesn't have UTF-8 encoding (and it's even
questionable if we should output UTF-8 to browsers already) I found
myself wrapping every 'node_value' into mb_translate_encoding().
I know it's a 'nice-to-have', but I think this is the kind of
convenience people are used to from PHP.

>- 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.




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