Re: PACKAGE PROPOSAL: XML_XMLPull

On Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:07, Harry Fuecks wrote: > 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). This stuff can be implemented in less than 30 lines of code extending XML_Parser. If you people fell that pull "style" parsing is interesting, I'd provide it as addon of XML_Parser but not as a bloated separate package IMHO. It even provides not related stuff like var streaming while we already have a package for it. Sorry if I sound harsh, just haven't still slept, hope you get my point. -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com