Re: simple xml api

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 05:55, Christian Stocker wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 18:18, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > Sam Ruby sent me the following URL: > > úèÜ > > d|ѳ÷Èí®íÆhttp://dev2dev.bea.com/articlesnews/discussion/thread.jsp?thread=JSchneider_XML > > > > It looks really neat, and much in the PHP way of doing things. Take the > > following XML document, and I'll show you how easy parsing it is with > > the Simple API proposed above (ported slightly to PHP). > > IMHO, it's a nice way to approach XML documents which are relatively > shallow like the example below (data centric XML-docs). But I wouldn't > want to process something Docbook-style with that :) And how does it > handle attributes, comments, processing instructions, namespaces, etc.? > You would want to process something like docbook? :-) attributes and namespaces are just another level of indirection. ie: <php.dev> <php.dev.xml>cool</php.dev.xml> </php.dev> var_dump($php->dev->xml); // string (4) "cool" and <simple> <name length="4">John</name> </simple> var_dump($simple->name->length); // int (4) var_dump($simple->name); // string (4) "John" Or we could make them associative array accesses: var_dump($simple->name['length']); // int (4) Processing instructions could be per node arrays. Remember, since we're overloading we can do some magic here. Comments could be in a "special" array $node->__comments. > So, it would be certainly a nice additon to DOM/SAX/XSLT, but it can't > provide a replacement for them (again IMHO...) Agreed. But what I like about is that its a much simplified subset of 95% of what most people want to do. -Sterling -- "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." - Joseph Weizenbaum