Yeah, it would be a rather odd argument for someone to make that even though I wrote QueryPath and the QueryPath module, I have to remove QueryPath from the QueryPath module simply because it is separable from Drupal (and because I have released the non-Drupal part separately from the Drupal module).
Matt On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Scott Reynen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/24/11 10:58 PM, David Metzler wrote: >> >> Regarding introspection..... Not quite true. I use print_r on simplexml >> objects all the time with dsm. >> >> drupal_set_message('<pre>' . print_r($xml,1) .'</pre>'); > > Hmm. That's never worked for me, and the note on php.net suggests it doesn't > work for others. But if it works for you, great. I do want to note, though, > that dsm() is not a shorthand for drupal_set_message(); it's a completely > different function in the devel module. > >> although it sounds like the drupal community is pretty "down" on its use. > > For my part, I didn't mean to suggest I'm "down" on SimpleXML, rather that > it may be working fine (though it sounds like it wasn't for Jeff) even if > inspection suggests otherwise. > >> I'll start giving qp a look , but this community has frowned on bundling >> third party libraries with drupal contrib modules in the past. > > Kevin O has already pointed out QueryPath is okay on licensing, but that's > not enough to make it okay for Drupal.org. The policy against hosting third > party work on Drupal.org goes beyond licensing concerns. See: > > http://drupal.org/node/422996 > > That said, QueryPath is _not_ third party. The maintainer of the module on > Drupal.org is the lead developer of the QueryPath project at querypath.org. > It's first party. > > -- > Scott Reynen > MakeDataMakeSense.com > -- http://technosophos.com http://querypath.org
