Re: Re: SimpleXML marked as EXPERIMENTAL

From:	Christian Stocker	Date:	Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:26:31 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: SimpleXML marked as EXPERIMENTAL
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On 2.12.2004 18:48 Uhr, Friedhelm Betz wrote:

Hi Marcus,
Hello Friedhelm, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 2:18:08 AM, you wrote:
Hi,

It was probably just overlooked? I'll remove EXPERIMENTAL status, unless someone speaks up. S Andi Gutmans wrote:
Hi, Is there a reason why SimpleXML is marked as experimental in the PHP documentation? EXPERIMENTAL status was removed from the source tree a few months ago. Andi

As long as we are in "dropping EXPERIMENTAL Mode": Shouldn't we drop EXPERIMENTAL from php4 domxml living in PECL? AFAIRC once Cgristian Stocker said, it is stable, obviously no API changes will happen etc. Any reason not to drop EXPERIMENTAL from docs and pecl source for domxml?
Please don't drop it there because that would sooner or later mean that people will start using it a lot. The idea was to drop domxml once we have dom - we have dom now.
Is your POV, that you don't want people to use domxml with php4? If so, the EXPERIMENTAL tag for php4 should stay to hinder people using domxml with php4? My impression was to use the EXPERIMENTAL tag for 'unstable' features, not to hinder people to use a feature. domxml is php4 only and not longer in the packages for php5, because it was moved to pecl and is deprecated for php5. One has to take extra steps to use domxml with php 5. That said, I can't imagine people start using php 5 with domxml, they would use dom.

You can't use domxml with php5. Doesn't work, AFAIK (actually, I never tested it, but I doubt it'll work...). And certainly doesn't work alongside dom...

Simple question: Is domxml still experimental? I think no ;-) From the archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=109358625722096&w=2

It's not experimantal anymore in the sense of API changes. (Known) Bugs are not there, the limitations are in the implementation, which was fixed with dom in php5. I use it (domxml) a lot on my servers and doesn't cause any problems (anymore ;) ) I don't care a lot about the topic. IMHO, we can remove the experimental tag. Maybe add a warning, that it's not available in PHP 5 anymore and that it's not compatible with ext/dom. chregu

Regards Friedhelm