Re: zend api question

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > > hi uwe, > > > > - to the best of my knowledge - > > array_init() and object_init_ex() won't touch the refcount stuff (which is > > not needed for array_init(return_value)). > > > > to create a *new* zval use MAKE_STD_ZVAL/INIT_PZVAL those function will do > > the desired. > > > > so just say: > > > > zval *child; > > MAKE_STD_ZVAL(child); > > ... > Ok, thanks. > > > PS: i've been thinking of a DOM like thing myself - and i was considering > > using libwww instead of pure expat (to be able to parse HTML and XML) - > > what do you think? > I decided to take libxml (http://rufus.w3.org/veillard/) which is also used > in gnome. It already has a DOM Interface in C which might be helpful. > What I'm not sure about is how to make the php interface: i'm not sure if using a second XML parser would do any good in php. i think i've read that libwww supports DOM (not sure) and libwww uses expat as their XML parser but also supports parsing of HTML 4.0 (which i believe is nice). so i think going with libwww might be a good idea. > > 1. parse the xml file and build up a tree of php objects representing > the xml file. This would be basically what libxml does in C. In such > a case libxml actually does more than needed because it builds > the tree, too. Wonder how efficient that would be with zend. > > 2. take the tree from libxml and just add php function to walk through it. > This is simple but further away from a DOM interface. good question - i think implementing both options would be nice. tc > > Uwe > -- > Uwe.Steinmann@fernuni-hagen.de > Tel: +2331 987 4528 Fax: +2331 987 375 > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany