BTW, I can send my source implementation of my toString() method which
returns the full content. Then you can do what you need in terms of
renaming, etc.
Thanks!
Blake Schwendiman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marcus Boerger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Blake Schwendiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML and Default Cast To String
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>
> > From my opinion the current behavior is perfect because i see simplexml
from
> > an xml developers side and not from an html developers side. The former
must
> > typically know exactly where his strings comme from while the latter has
> > only text to deal with and often has situations where he needs to filter
out
> > formatting tags like the <i> in the example.
>
> All of my SimpleXML work is strictly XML, too. However, my thought was
> that I could always call strip_tags() to eliminate the information I
> didn't want, but there was no apply_tags() function to do the
> reverse. :) Therefore, it was better to use the other method.
>
> > So i'd say let us add a method for returning the complete content. Adam
> > could you do that?
>
> That wouldn't be too difficult (although I am busy for the next day or
> two). However, as much as I loathe toggles, I'm wondering if it
> wouldn't be better to make this an object-wide setting. My thought are
> that on an object-by-object basis, you either always want tags or
> never want them.
>
> Something like:
>
> $sxe = simplexml_load_file('doc.xml');
> $sxe->displayTags = true;
>
> This would keep the interface clean. Or would that just confuse things
> with more magic?
>
> Also, what would the default behavior should be? I can argue both
> sides of the issue right now. :)
>
> -adam
>
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