Re: a plead

On Today, Dan Allen wrote: > I know that we are past the freeze date for PHP_4_2_0 but I hope that > you can find an exception for this case. Recently the DOM XML interface > has received a great deal of attention from the developers and for this > reason has moved much closer to completeness. After doing a fair amount > of testing on it I have found it to be very stable and quite reliable. > The version that is going to "ship" with 4.2.0 is more or less complete > for the average user. However, there is one major hole that I just > don't see how you can allow to slip past. Up until about 3 days ago, > the function remove_attribute() had not yet been implemented. From what > I can tell, it was simply overlooked and of all the functions that are > still not implemented, it is by far the most important, since it blocks > a very fundamental usage of the module, one surely everyone using it > will need. It is currently implemented but missed the 4_2_0 branch. yeah. it's a pity. i was very busy until the branch date (deadline for my upcoming book, shameless plug :) ), and therfore some features missed PHP_4_2_0 (I integrated furthermore getElementsByTagname and getElementById today... but was not able to commit it to cvs till now.) > On top of that argument, I just finished and submitted an entire PEAR > interface to act as a frontend for the DOM XML/XPATH module and this one > missing function is going to put off the usefullness of it for yet > another release. Please find it in your programming hearts to allow > remove_attribute() to make it into 4_2_0. you should maybe ask on php-dev (maybe you have already, don't follow that list by mail), since they decide such things. chregu