Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Add openStream() to XML{Reader,Writer}

> Le 21 mai 2024 à 21:00, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <mweierophinney@gmail..com> a > écrit : >> (But again, I prefer that all those methods work on instances, as it was the case before >> PHP 8. They shouldn’t have been switched to static-but-broken-for-subclasses without discussion.) > > Fixing the existing ones would be a potential BC break, depending on whether or not instance > usage is completely eliminated. Yes, of course. But there exist options that don’t make the API even more inconsistent than it already is. I hereby propose: * XMLReader::fromUrl() as replacement for (new XMLReader)->open() * XMLReader::fromString() as replacement for (new XMLReader)->xml() … which would make me happy. (The old, inconsistently-named, instance-and-semi-broken-static methods could be kept for BC and marked as soft-deprecated in the manual.) —Claude