Re: xmdom clone(true) & CDATA + html(?) encoding

Richard Lynch wrote:

In my limited XML experience... I have found that firing up the fancy XML parsers and tree-walkers and XML-writers and all that stuff, pretty much entailed a *LOT* more work than just hacking the file directly, and stuffing in the XML text that need to be there, or reading the XML and using http://php.net/explode on it. well i would personnaly go straight to regexp then

Just my opinion. Disclaimer: I consider XML the biggest bugaboo since Y2K -- Blown all out of proportion and over-saturated by hypesters who have NO CLUE what they're talking about. you're probbaly partialy right about that, i've seen some quite lame xml stuff considering the extreme verbosity of that kind of structure..

anyways i guess the main idea with xml was to build a serious replacement for our current html.. And considering your opinion above i guess you must think quite the same thing of html, right ? but what i was merely pointing out in my first email was that php seriously lacks a solid xmldom library.. I've used xml to do many many things including some fancy ones, using various languages and never had to scratch my head trying to understand what was going on, like what happens here with php xmldom test.. maybe if you had a more reliable xmldom in php then you'd use it more often and find out about the ease of use it can provide sometimes..

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