[domxml] namespaces / exception / extensionname

Hi

As said before, domxml5 developement was started and we already
have some working proof-of-concept code. Now we're not sure about some
"details" and I'd like to ask this list about your opinion:

- Namespaces: Should we use a "domxml" namespace or just go the
traditional way? the new domxml (called domxml5 for the time being) will
have a fully OO interface, but it doesn't really matter if we use
namespaces or not;) there's not much difference for the extension itseld

- Exceptions: Here again. To use as default or not? W3C Standards rely a
lot on Exceptions, so it would be nice to have and Rob summed it up quite
right:

"So any consensus for throwing excpetions? I cant say yea or nay over this
as it go back and forth on the issue. The one thing I keep coming back to
is that throwing expcetions you are now going to force the user into using
try/catch - which is not a bad thing.

It is something completely new and are there any other extensions out
there doing it? Writing in PHP (or any other language) should have some
sort of conformity otherwise people would just get fed up trying to deal
with all the different nuances.

But on the other hand, I would *think* that most people using the domxml
extension would be knowledgeable to deal with this."

- Extension Name: It looks like domxml5 will be more or less completely
uncompatible to domxml4, so you have to port your applications before you
can upgrade to PHP5 ('though, it should be possible to write a wrapper in
PHP-Userland..). With this in mind, should we really replace the domxml
with a new one or just introduce a new, different extension and fade out
the old in a later php5 version. This would make upgrading to PHP5 for
people using domxml much easier, as they don't have to go through the
domxml code immediately.

Furthermore, domxml is a very misleading name for the whole extension.
domxml is not only about DOM stuff, since a long time. It has support for
XSLT, XPath, Validation, XInclude, etc... Furthermore libxml2 would allow
for implementing more XML stuff like XML Schema/relaxng Validation, SAX,
XMLTextReader Interface etc... Therefore IMHO a more generic name would be
a "Good Thing".

chregu





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