dom abstraction package

Greetings from userland, [Tried posting this through the newsgroup interface, but it doesn't seem to have made it.] I've just posted a package proposal to pear-dev for a dom abstraction package: http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.pear.dev&article=18170 I thought I'd mention it here for a couple of reasons. First, there was some discussion on this list about it months back, and that's what prompted me to eventually sit down and do it. Second, it includes a test suite which checks the packages for DOM-compliance (1, 2 or 3). This has a 'raw php5 mode' which runs the same tests (approx 200 and counting) over PHP5's dom extension. I initially did this to help me write the abstraction classes for this, but now it's (sort of) working, I thought it might be of some use to you. Last, I've got some questions that came up making the test suite. Not sure all are actual bugs - if they are let me know and I'll enter them. 1. There's no NodeList or NamedNodeMap objects - getElementsByTagName et al just return arrays. Is it likely to stay like this? 2. I've seen some weird things happening accessing class properties, and am wondering if it's a bug. if ($node) {...} // never true, even when $node // is a real dom object return $doc->documentElement; // returns null, but... $el = $doc->documentElement; return $el; // returns element as expected! 3. the data attribute of domCharacterData descendents (Comment et al) returns domtext instead of a string. (My tests mess this one up too - will fix). 4. $doc->implementation // segfaults 5. Many more... will post once I've got my head round them. Environment: php-5.0.0b1 (command line), libxml 2.5.8, kernel 2.4.18 Have a good weekend, Matt