New extension underway

Hi all, I'm a Senior Software Engineer who works with PHP and Extensions a lot. I recently decided to develop a series of PHP5 Classes in an extension. This started out as research for an idea I want to implement at the office - sort of "cutting my teeth" on writing PHP classes in C. But, once I got started and built up some steam, I decided what I'm writing might be very useful to others. I have looked around on PEAR and PECL, and I did find one similar package on the PEAR site. I believe my approach is a little better founded though, and of course - my classes are in an extension, which gives obvious performance gains over scripted classes. So, the idea is an XHTML DOM hierarchy. I'm developing classes that represent XHTML elements, while drawing heavily on the DOM methods used in JavaScript. I want to be able to declare a document object, set properties and attributes on it, and build content into it. (And at this point, I actually _can_.) I want to be able to manipulate the nodes in my hierarchy in very much the same way one handles elements in JavaScript applying the DOM standards. When I'm scripting in PHP, I like to focus on what the script is doing, not whether I remembered to close that tag or spelled some attribute correctly. I found the HTML_Page2 PEAR package to be similar, but all attributes appeared to be set via named functions instead of property sets (more stuff to remember). The API also looked incomplete to me, failing to represent most of the HTML tags. I intend to complete and run this extension on my web server. I am very happy to open-source it and share with the world, and I would like to see it published on PECL. Heck, it would be really great if it became a standard extension, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Presently, I call the project XDOM (or XDom), because it's a hell of a lot easier to say than "Extensible Hyper-Text Markup Language Document Object Model Class Library". Does my project generally merit inclusion, and does the name garner approval? I look forward to hearing replies/thoughts on this, as well as joining PECL, contributing, and interacting with other extension developers. I hope I have some good things to share, and I'm sure I stand to learn a lot from the community. Sincerely, Darren Hill (dchill42)