Re: SimpleXML and Default Cast To String

BTW, I can send my source implementation of my toString() method which returns the full content. Then you can do what you need in terms of renaming, etc. Thanks! Blake Schwendiman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg" <adam@trachtenberg.com> To: "Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net> Cc: "Blake Schwendiman" <blake@mediafence.com>; <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML and Default Cast To String > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > From my opinion the current behavior is perfect because i see simplexml from > > an xml developers side and not from an html developers side. The former must > > typically know exactly where his strings comme from while the latter has > > only text to deal with and often has situations where he needs to filter out > > formatting tags like the <i> in the example. > > All of my SimpleXML work is strictly XML, too. However, my thought was > that I could always call strip_tags() to eliminate the information I > didn't want, but there was no apply_tags() function to do the > reverse. :) Therefore, it was better to use the other method. > > > So i'd say let us add a method for returning the complete content. Adam > > could you do that? > > That wouldn't be too difficult (although I am busy for the next day or > two). However, as much as I loathe toggles, I'm wondering if it > wouldn't be better to make this an object-wide setting. My thought are > that on an object-by-object basis, you either always want tags or > never want them. > > Something like: > > $sxe = simplexml_load_file('doc.xml'); > $sxe->displayTags = true; > > This would keep the interface clean. Or would that just confuse things > with more magic? > > Also, what would the default behavior should be? I can argue both > sides of the issue right now. :) > > -adam > > -- > adam@trachtenberg.com >