Re: SimpleXML: Moving Forward

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Adam Trachtenberg wrote: > Here are my thoughts on solutions: > > 1) Place all elements in an array (or nodeList) regardless whether > there's 0, 1, or many. This is the DOM solution. This just leads to > annoying code where you need to do $foo->item(0) and $foo->firstChild. > > However, I don't really see any way around this otherwise. Either it's > general or not. It can't be both. (Unless there's some magical type > that's both an array and a scalar.) I'm willing to put up with this > headache because the klunkyness here is outweighted by the niceness for > most cases. To clarify, I prefer *NOT* to put everything in an array like DOM. The headache I'm willing to put up with is the if(is_array()) code, especially if it turns out to be feasable to do the XML Schema linkage I suggested. -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's php cookbook avoid the holiday rush, buy your copy today!