Re: The PHP Platform

and Google uses php for its website yay! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Livieratos" <stefan@icsplus.de> To: <php-dev@lists.php.net>; "Dave Mertens" <dave@zyprexia.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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 > ============================== > Tel : +49 9131 127733 > Fax : +49 9131 127744 > E-mail : info@icsplus.de > Web : http://www.icsplus.de > ============================== > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >