Re: XML_Xpath

Lukas Smith (smith@backendmedia.com) wrote: > Cipriano Groenendal wrote: > > >>Hello. > >> > >>The current XML_Xpath is 100% completely broken in the newer PHP Versions. > >>I'm not sure exactly when, but some time along the ride, the DomXML > >>implementation started returning all its classnames in lowercase(ie: > >>domdocument). The XML_Xpath package searches the classnames case sensitive > >>(DomDocument). Thus it'll never recognize XML as being loaded, and will > >>always fail. > >> > >>A bug about this has already been submitted over 2 months ago[1], and a > >>fix[2] for this bug had already been applied to the CVS 5 months, 1 week > >>ago. > >>Yet untill now, there has been no new XML_XPath released. > >>The included test didn't work either, since it used functions(systime()) > >>that simply don't exist. > > > > > >Okay, sorry about that, bad mail client send the mail while i wasn't done > >writing ;-) > >Like I wanted to add, a simple test script I made showed how none of the > >three advertised methods work, yet with the version from CVS everything > >runs > >perfectly. > >This might be a nice test-case for the QA team to work on, see how they > >think they should handle a situation like this :) > > Well the problem is that the QA teams currently has no authority at all. > Packages are the sole authority of the respective maintainer in the > current regulations. > I apologize for the excessive delay in getting a new version of this package released. You will find that the current CVS is now released as version 1.2.1 and should fix the reoccuring problem that developers were having with this package. On another note, I really hope that the PEAR developers can look at the possibility of "picking up" projects and working on them when the lead developer goes awall. Just because the lead developer doesn't have a lot of time to donate, doesn't mean you have to start dropping packages. As much interest as I have in other things, I enjoyed playing with this package again as it is a very easy way to rip information out of XML files when you just don't have the time or energy to play with a full fledged parsing engine. I find that it is plenty fast for reading XML config files or pulling data in scripts, and perhaps it is performant enough to use continuously as well. Dan -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Daniel Allen, <dan@mojavelinux.com> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There is no such thing as a casual knowledge of xslt, either you know everything about it or you are sitting in the creek. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -