Re: DOMXML Function consistency

Excellent, looks like this bug report is getting some limelight. While we are on the topic, I just wanted to put in a small plea. I realize that we want to map close the W3C, but I have a small request. Don't deprecate get_content(). I realize it is not a well know W3C standard, but there is a function called wholeText() which just strings together all the text nodes of a child, skipping any element nodes. It is just really a pain in the rear to handle text nodes by getting the child nodes and then running through them, checking for text nodes and then concating them together. It is just a lot of extra work for something so trivial. I really do scream the words W3C most of the time, but it is just so unwieldy to handle the xml tree without this function. Dan Christian Stocker (chregu@bitflux.ch) wrote: > Hi > > I have no problem with that, but the old functions should not be > deprecated, it's the W3C-Standard way. And if i understood it correctly, > both methods (name and nodeName) can be used for the same... > > chregu > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Joseph Tate wrote: > > > A bug report or two have been made regarding function names in attribute > > nodes. Taking a look, nodes have the following access functions: > > > > node_name > > node_type > > node_value > > > > etc. However attribute nodes have the following access functions: > > > > name > > value > > specified > > > > I am thinking that to make it more consistent, we should change the > > attribute functions to > > attr_name or node_name > > attr_value or node_value > > attr_specified or node_specified > > > > I'd vote for the latter series since the programmer already knows they're > > attributes. Renaming will reduce the WTF factor. We can leave the aliases > > to the old functions for a while to maintain BC. > > > > WISH: I wish there was a Zend Function for marking a function alias as > > deprecated, I.e. so that a warning message is displayed if the function is > > used after being marked deprecated. A way to display the replacement > > function in the warning message would be nice too. > > > > Joseph > > > > > > > > -- > nam...christian stocker adr...bremgartnerstr. 66, ch-8003 zurich > pho...+41 1 451 6021 www...http://phant.ch/chregu > mob...+41 76 561 8860 ema...chregu@phant.ch > wor...+41 1 240 5670 gpg...0x5CE1DECB > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- ________________________________________________________________ Daniel Allen, <dan@mojavelinux.com> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ ________________________________________________________________ "When you're raised by the Jesuits, you become either obedient or impertinent" -- Jack McCoy, "Law and Order" ________________________________________________________________