Re: SimpleXML and Default Cast To String

>> XPath cant be the answer to everything. Although it would work, XPath > sure. but it can solve most of the simple problems quite efficiently, > like getting immediate children. Out of all the functionality that has been mentioned, that was the one I would have added :) imho, that is a very useful function and should not require xpath to be built in > Sure, I'm not dissing DOM (well, slightly, but still)... As I wrote to > Andi, DOM is evil, but its a necessary evil. Feel free to dismiss it. That was just an example. Could easily replace that with compare the speed differenced using direct libxml tree functions with libxml xpath queries. > Perhaps. But that happy medium can be achieved in userspace, or another > extension. SimpleXML's utility methods are now nowhere near the type of > support I'm guessing you want, they are (imho) rather silly replacement > for basic xpath. True. I was thinking more along the lines of StandardXML ;) Rob