Re: New Package Proposal

Aeden Jameson wrote:

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.

So, this is a kind of active process flow "chart". I'm not sure if that doesn't fall into the framework type of package... -Philippe