Re: PACKAGE PROPOSAL: XML_XMLPull

"Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com> a écrit dans le message de news:5513049884.20030913080032@idecnet.com... > 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. +1 for an implementation in XML_Parser. > > -- > Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com