Re: The PHP Platform

Hi, Dave Mertens wrote:

That all great. Almost every company (even google) has a SOAP interface. SOAP relies for a big part on XML. We (ISM, the company i work for) write e-commerce, b2c, b2b, extranet and portal systems. We have to connect several interface to the website. And SOAP makes that much easier. And i know that PHP can also writes console apps with forking, getopt, etc. What i really miss in PHP is a good XML parser. And because i've been working with the MS parser for 2 years now, i'm not completely nutral. But i must say that working with the MS parser is realy fun.

Could you please elaborate a little bit more on this? What is not good about the PHP XML Parser (Expat) and why is the MSXML Parser superior to or "more fun" than the XML extensions of PHP (XML, XSLT, DOMXML)? The only difference I see featurewise is that MSXML offers XML Schema validation which is not yet supported by domxml (libxml2). Regards, Stefan Livieratos -- ICS Plus Internet Consulting + Services ============================== Aeussere Brucker Str. 51 D-91058 Erlangen Germany ==============================

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