Re: PEAR and XMl DOM

<smith@backendmedia.com> wrote : > Hi, > > I am having a bit of trouble with our PEAR packages that handle with > building tree structures of XML documents. > > XML_Tree > I got XML_Tree working after looking at how its used in LiveUser. And > from what I saw it does the trick, but not with a very convenient > interface if you want to jump deeper into the tree structure. > > Sidenote: this got me thinking that it would be nice to find a list of > all packages that use a given package. Especially in this case this was > the only useful documentation I found with which I could actually build > a little app. > > XPath > Next I tried XPath and found the examples to be not working. It seems > that atleast the get_class calls are bugged, since get_class always > returns lowercase (was it different at some point?), yet those values > where compared with mixed case strings. Fixing that still didn't solve > the issues though. Could it be that this package is suffering from BC > issues? > > Tree > After a bit of mangling I also got this package to work. However the > "docs" at phpkitchensink didn't really touch on the use with XML as much > as I would have liked, nor did it make the array structure obvious to > me. > > I just wanted to share my experience. I will probably try to spend some > more time on this but I wanted to see if maybe someone else has the same > problems and/or even a solution. You can also try Config with the xml container, but it will probably look a bit like XML_Tree :) But that's more configuration oriented and it misses a sort of XPath. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam