Re: php.net search data aggregation

On the short term, a disambiguation page would be nice, and the long run, we might be able to map /xml and such to a categorized manual section. Goba On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Friedhelm Betz wrote:

Hi Sean, Sean Coates wrote:

PHP 5 uptake is also speeding up and there are a couple of areas of the manual that are confusing. A search for "xml" or going to php.net/xml lands you on php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php which has no mention of the different xml implementations available.

The best way to handle this, probably, is to add a very high level "XML Processing in PHP" appendix and link xml there. The appendix could then link the the various sections: DOM, libxml, SimpleXML, ref.xml, etc.

Alternative: Let the search handle this "ambiguous" terms and nuke this kinds of shortcuts? php.net/xml would give you a page with results relevant to xml, of course extension/implementation wise. The point Rasmus made boils probably down to "categorized manual" http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/phpdoc/RFC/manual.xml.in?view=markup&rev=1.19 This approach would it make dead simple, php.net/xml points to <refgroup id="refs.xml"> This said, I don't know the status of livedocs and in which way livedocs supersedes the "categorized manual" approach. Friedhelm