Re: DOM Implementation for PHP3

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Andrey Zmievski wrote: > 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. it would be insane great if we had something like DOM for php4- more and more of the formats we have to handle will be XML and to have a standarized abstraction layer to traverse, modify and query those documents would make life far easier - and the XMP parser functions obsolete (sorry stig;-) - at least we would have a very high-level interface, that could&would reduce the scrip size by an order of a magnitude.... my 2cents, tc > > -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 > > > -- 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