PACKAGE PROPOSAL: XML_XMLPull

Would like to propose PEAR::XML_XMLPull, which is a pull based API for parsing XML, that (arguably) makes it alot easier to parse XML. I've prepared a PEAR package (0.1.0rc1) here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87488&release_id=184205 - you need to have PEAR::XML_SaxFilters 0.2.0 installed first to run the example. Essentially what XMLPull does is eliminate the need for handler functions (as with the SAX API) and rather deal with something like a switch statement, e.g.; while ( $event = $parser->parse() ) { switch ( $type = $event->getType() ) {

       case XML_PULL_START_TAG:

// Start tag handled here

       break;
       case XML_PULL_END_TAG:

// End tag handled here

       break;
       case XML_PULL_TEXT:

// Character data handled here

       break;

} } There's more info on XML Pull at http://www.xmlpull.org (the API I've defined only loosely conforms to the Java API described there).