[Fwd: Re: [PHP5-DEV] XML in PHP5]

and another one -----Forwarded Message----- Hi About abstracting and XML: As I said in one of my earlier mails, I still think, we should not abstract on the C level, because it can getting too difficult und too non-satisfying for everyone. But we could ease the writing of an abstraction Layer on PHP-Level, if we define a common API for DOM/SAX and XSLT like for example JAXP for Java does. Together with an OO interface and this approach, it should be quite simple to write an abstraction layer on PHP level. Code could then look like the following: $DOMBuilder = new libxml2_dom_builder(); $document = $DOMBuilder->parse($file); etc.. Therefore if anyone writes a xalan (or whatever) implementation, you have just to change "new libxml2_dom_builder" to "new xalan_dom_builder" and the rest should stay the same (as long, as both support all used methods and no implementation specific methods are used.) The same would go for XSLT (new libxml2_transformer()) and SAX (you get the idea ;) ). libxml2_dom_builder() et al. are certainly not the best chosen names for those methods, a better naming scheme for this should definitively be found. I'll try to write a proto API (with ideas taken from JAXP, DOM Level 3, etc) for this in the next weeks, unless everyone thinks this is stupid and not worth the effort. chregu -- PHP 5 Development Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- christian stocker | bitflux GmbH | schoeneggstrasse 5 | ch-8004 zurich phone +41 1 240 56 70 | mobile +41 76 561 88 60 | fax +41 1 240 56 71 http://www.bitflux.ch | chregu@bitflux.ch | gnupg-keyid 0x5CE1DECB