Re: SimpleXML and Default Cast To String

At 04:54 PM 1/12/2004 -0500, Sterling Hughes wrote:

Hello Sterling, Monday, January 12, 2004, 10:33:08 PM, you wrote:

In theory, I like the idea of a unified set of XML helper extensions, but DOM's so big and ugly that I don't know if it plays well with others in the sandbox.

We are not consistent! Not in any way. DOM uses studlyCaps and SimpleXML uses underscores for its method names. Speaking of consistency we should probably discuss whether we want to change all methods of SimpleXML to studlyCaps (we cannot hcnage the DOM method names). Until RC1 i guess we can do such changes if we all agree and see it to be important.

Haven't you been reading the thread - there are no more methods! :)

Ignorance is bliss. It makes no sense to drop all methods. IMO that'd be absolute nonsense. Why? Every one of these methods can be done with simple xpath queries:

Because it's extremely easy to use! I don't have an opinion on everyone of the methods but giving people the easy way out is great. That's how I see SimpleXML, XML for Dummies! Andi

hasChildren() getChildren() == /child::node() attributes() == /attribute::* count() == count(//self::node()) This is why xpath was invented, and why its there in the first place. -Sterling -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php