Re: future of PEAR

Stephan Schmidt wrote: > I'm the author of patXMLRenderer (does the same as XML_Transformer, > but was released about a year earlier) That's not true. Kristian and I went looked at patXMLRenderer over breakfast at last year's International PHP Conference. We did so because you told as the same (non-sense, IMHO) you're telling now. First off, XML_Transformer is not, like your comment in braces above implies, a "rip-off" of something you came up with first. It is based on ideas that stem from the Roxen platform. Roxen introduced RXML (the Roxen Markup Language) and transformations thereof years before the W3C proposed the XML technologies everyone seems to be crazy about today. Our XML_Transformer and your patXMLRenderer are only similar at the very core of the underlying concept: transforming XML tags. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a user of patXMLRenderer has "to buy" the whole package of patConfiguration, patTemplate and what-not and is bound to this framework rather than using the lightweight and self-sufficient XML_Transformer. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to bash your software, I am merely recounting the impressions we got over the limited time our breakfast lasted. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5: http://professionelle-softwareentwicklung-mit-php5.de/