Re: New Package Proposal

Hi: My Comments are below >> .. to contribute a port of the Jakarta Projects Digester package. >Did you take a look at http://www.php-tool.net/patConfiguration. >It's similar to >Digester, but the rules are simpler to create (and they can only be created using >XML). I didn't see much resemblence between this tool and Digester. I didn't see where the package provided for the trigger of some processing when a XML element is encountered. For example, when a transcoding server finishes a job another system receives the XML fragment ..... <media type="mpeg" filename="video.mpeg" archive="true" .../> .... I would like to initiate the archive process upon encountering the archive="true" Digester provides the common plumbing, in the form of Rules objects, for scenarios like the one above. Without Digester I would have to code these steps 1) Get the value of the archive attribute using a XML parser or patConfig 2) Test the value 3) Construct the argument signature; retrieve other values, if needed, for the argument signature of the method that initiates the archival process.. 4) Call the method 5) Do some post-processing on return values if need. >Do you have any code I have completed a sizeable part nearly everything in org.apache.commons.digester >Digester is creating tons of objects I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you believe there is a superflous amount of objects created? If so, why? >...., whereas in PHP you would use arrays for >his. Maybe I'm just slow, but I'm not sure what you mean here. -- Cheers, Aeden Jameson