Re: SimpleXML's atXPath method
| From: | Kalle Sommer Nielsen | Date: | Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:37:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SimpleXML's atXPath method | ||
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2017-01-07 18:01 GMT+01:00 Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>:
> Evening Rowan,
>
> I must protest: It is wasteful, unclear, and generally nasty, to create,
> return, and manipulate an array if you are only ever going to reference one
> element in code.
>
> It is quite normal to know the structure of a document ahead of time, and
> this would allow you to write more succinct and less wasteful code.
>
> It would appear valuable to me ... I'm not in love with the name of the
> thing, but the basic idea appears valuable.
I agree, the feature/idea is great. Coming from someone who worked a
fair bit with XML recently (I know I know!). Same goes for the method
naming, seems a little bit awkward
--
regards,
Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net