Re: Re: simple xml api

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:12, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > I like the ideas around here a lot... I'm don't know too much about C, so > unfortunately I won't be able to help out to much with coding the new > extension, but I'd like to provide some feedback and help writing > documentation (got doc-karma anyway...). One thing is that I'd hope the new > extension would be called xml as opposite to domxml. Especially if it's > going to be an extension comprising all the different stuff. yeah, domxml is not the right name anymore. but ext/xml is taken already. maybe ext/libxml2 as it's based on this library, but I don't like it that much, eiter :) chregu > I have written PHP scripts that use the sax extension to build a DOM-kind of > tree that's (at least in my view) really easy to use. It uses some kind of > nodes and lots of arrays and stuff... If you're interested, I could post > some code. > > Regards, > > Dirkjan > > "Sterling Hughes" <sterling@bumblebury.com> wrote in message > news:1043947104.15187.980.camel@hasele... > > Sam Ruby sent me the following URL: > > > > http://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). > > > > Let's say we're a bar, and we have a list in XML of the different beers > > on tap. > > > > <beers> > > <beer> > > <name>Becks</name> > > <nation>Germany</nation> > > </beer> > > <beer> > > <name>Heineken</name> > > <nation>Netherlands</nation> > > </beer> > > <beer> > > <name>Hefeweißer</name> > > <nation>Germany</name> > > </beer> > > <beer> > > <name>Samuel Adams</name> > > <nation>USA</nation> > > </beer> > > <beer> > > <name>Coors</name> > > <nation>Not surprisingly, no one claims ownership</nation> > > </beer> > > <beer> > > <name>Budweiser</name> > > <nation>Germany</name> > > </beer> > > </beers> > > > > <?php > > // $file contains the xml above > > $tap = new Simple_XML($file); > > foreach ($tap->beers as $beer) { > > var_dump($beer->name); > > // string "Name of Beer" > > } > > > > $nations = array_unique($tap->range($tap->beers, "nation")); > > // All the represented nations in the file > > > > $germanBeers = $tap->search($tap->beers, > > create_function('if ($beer->nation == "Germany") return 1; return > > 0;') > > ); > > > > // you can also query using Xpath documents > > > > var_dump($tap->beers[0]->name); > > // string (5) "Becks" > > > > // Modifying documents > > $tap->beers[0]->name = "Killians Red"; > > $tap->beers[0]->nation = "Ireland"; > > > > // Add a meta data element, and set the various data > > foreach ($tap->beers as $beer) { > > $beer->metadata->type = "Heavy"; > > $beer->metadata->audience = "People with chest hair"; > > > > // $distributors is another XML document that we now > > // merge with the current document > > $beer->metadata->distributors = $distributors->list; > > > > $tasty = $beer->name == "Coors" ? "No!" : "Yes"; > > > > $beer->metadata->attributes = <<<ASSIGN_XML > > <attribute> > > <tasty>$tasty</tasty> > > </attribute> > > <attribute> > > <filling>yes</filling> > > </attribute> > > ASSIGN_XML; > > } > > ?> > > > > To me, this just seems like the PHP5 way of doing XML. Simple, Elegant > > and Efficient. We could of course provide DOM and SAX for the purists > > (SAX is also better for large files), and people using XSLT. However, I > > think this API just maps itself to the problem domain perfectly (and > > could easily be implemented on top of libxml). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > -Sterling > > > > PS: Yes, I do know xml_parse_into_struct(). This is different. > > > > -- > > "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, > > then they fight you, then you win." > > - Gandhi > > -- 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