Re: [RfC] XML_Serializer, XML_Util
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:35:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RfC] XML_Serializer, XML_Util | ||
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On Tue Jul 29, 2003 at 03:1323PM +0200, Stephan Schmidt wrote:
> As this package grows, I think it would be wise to put some common methods,
> that can be used by other XML_* packages in a new package called XML_Util
> (name could be changed, of course). This package offers static methods to
> replace XML entites (<,>,&,',") in a string, to convert an associative
> array
> into an attributes string, and to do some other common tasks. These methods
> are needed by a lot of classes and including them in every package is
> redundant and produces errors (e.g XML_Transformer_Util::attributesToString
> does not replace entities in the attribute values, which could produce XML
> that's not well-formed.
Sounds good except for the name which I don't really like.
> Furthermore I'd like to hear your comments on another subject:
> Should there be two packages: XML_Serializer and XML_Unserializer or if I
> should include both classes in one package.
They should be in one package.
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