> Well, this can be added with userspace handlers as I mentioned to > Marcus. The real trick to XML manipulation is Xpath, not adding a bunch > of broken methods. If people want to do that, they can load a simplexml > object into DOM, and use the two together. ;)
XPath cant be the answer to everything. Although it would work, XPath is slow. I dont have them handy, but benchmarking was done for libxml on XPath querying and simplly walking the tree and manuallly performing tests. As the size of the document increased, the time to perform the XPath query went up by drastically comapred to manual processing. This is a good reason to use many of the dom methods over xpath as they are much faster. If speed isnt an issue then its a real moot point. Don't get me wrong, I agree that simpleXML should be simple without alot of those methods (as a majority of the people using xml dont and most likely never will use them). And XPath is the answer for them when they need a little more juice. I can live with the interop between simpleXML and dom I guess, but see I wasnt the only one who was mentioning a happy medium between the 2 :) Rob -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
