Re: DOM Implementation for PHP3

From: Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:07:23 +0000
Subject: Re: DOM Implementation for PHP3
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Uwe Steinmann wrote: > > Document Object Model, or something like that. Isn't it a client side > > thing? > I'm not sure what you mean by client side, but I guess it could be used > to create an internal representation of an XML/HTML within a browser. > My intention is rather to supply a php3 function which takes an > XML/HTML document and returns a tree representation according to DOM. > You get a very powerful tool to access certain parts within an XML/HTML > document. This way php3 could be used to grab pieces of information > from several documents in the web and combine them into a new page. > I'm just not sure wether php3 can handle the whole DOM specification. > It is very much object oriented and describes a bunch of classes > like Dokument, Element, Node, .... which are likely to be nested. -- End of excerpt from Uwe Steinmann So why not do it for Zend/PHP4 instead? DOM handling in PHP could be very powerful. XML handling is nice but parsing a big XML file based just on element names is not too flexible. -Andrey * Programming is an art form that fights back. * -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net

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