Re: filesystem security questions

I personally thing there are FAR more important things to work on in this extension before we even address this issue. For instance: - relative xpath queries #1!! - namespace support in xpath (meaning auto register from the xml context) - fixing get_element_by_id to just name a few. Dan Rob Richards (rrichards@digarc.com) wrote: > The more I think about it, I dont know if streams should be done in the > domxml extension currently. > This is a big change from its current implementation and if it was to be > undertaken, then why not just start fresh with the unified implementation? > You are talking about implementing everything as streams (the dom, nodes, > etc..) correct? > > Even with stream, how would this help in the following problem. You need to > save your document to file. You may be passing it in as a stream, but when > the libxml call is made it just requires a file path. validation on the file > path is still going to be needed. > I cant see using a stream for this as we are not doing any type of I/O here, > just calling another library with a file path. > > I might be missing with streams, but after reading the readme, i still dont > see how they will help in this situation. > > I feel like I got side tracked from my origional question and am back at > square one. > > Rob > > > > Are you talking about your own extension or ext/domxml ? I > > think (but could be wrong) that sooner or later streams > > should be used everyone for consistency. > > > > - Markus > > > > -- > 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/ ________________________________________________________________ Microsofts's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, we'd be out of a job. ________________________________________________________________