Re: Package proposal: XML_Query2XML

As justin mentions I suggest you create a proposal on PePr (link is in the manual). I'm pretty sure the package will be interesting to many :) Arnaud. Justin Patrin wrote:

On 2/27/06, Lukas Feiler <lukas@empoweredmail.com> wrote:

Hi list! I developed (and documented very well) a package that might qualify as a PEAR package. Query2XML: http://query2xml.sourceforge.net Query2XML allows you to transform the records retrieved with one or more SQL SELECT queries into XML data. Very simple to highly complex transformations are supported. It was written with performance in mind and can handle large amounts of data. No XSLT needed. I wrote Query2XML because XML_sql2xml was just not flexible enough for my needs. Query2XML also uses PHP5's new DOM XML classes.

It looks useful. You'll probably need to change your error handling, though. I appeciate that you're giving your users options, but part of PEAR is a unified error handling mechanism. For PHP5 packages this is PEAR_Exception. PHP5 packages should not be returning PEAR_Errors. In addition, I'm not sure why you have an option to return errors as XML... I suppose this couls allow for directly passing errors back to some kind of webservice or XML handler directly but this doesn't really belong in the package itself, especially since it's causing extra code to be added for each error. I suggest you change your package to *only* throw exceptions and to allow excpeptions to bubble up in places where you're doing no real error handling. If a user wants to create an XML error they can add their own exception handler around calls to this package. In addition, you should really create a real PEAR proposal (which requires a PEAR account). This will allow us to keep track of what's been suggested and done. -- Justin Patrin