> Hello Sterling,
> 
> Monday, January 12, 2004, 10:33:08 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >> > In theory, I like the idea of a unified set of XML helper extensions,
> >> > but DOM's so big and ugly that I don't know if it plays well with
> >> > others in the sandbox.
> >> 
> >> We are not consistent! Not in any way. DOM uses studlyCaps and SimpleXML
> >> uses underscores for its method names. Speaking of consistency we should
> >> probably discuss whether we want to change all methods of SimpleXML to
> >> studlyCaps (we cannot hcnage the DOM method names). Until RC1 i guess we
> >> can do such changes if we all agree and see it to be important.
> >> 
> 
> > Haven't you been reading the thread - there are no more methods! :)
> 
> Ignorance is bliss.
> 
> It makes no sense to drop all methods. IMO that'd be absolute nonsense.
>

Why?  Every one of these methods can be done with simple xpath queries:

hasChildren()
getChildren()

==

/child::node()

attributes()

==

/attribute::*

count()

== 

count(//self::node())

This is why xpath was invented, and why its there in the first place.

-Sterling

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