Re: [fw-general] Zend_XMLElement proposal

[Bill Karwin]

Abu Hurayrah wrote:
Perhaps it would be useful to have a simple PHP-based wrapper around 
the DOM functionality that already exists, because using the DOM 
structure can be somewhat cumbersome at times...
I agree that manipulating XML at the DOM level in an object-oriented 
interface can be a little bit tedious.  But the DOM classes aren't 
_that_ bad after all, and they're no worse than most object-oriented 
manipulation of hierarchical structures usually are.  Any wrapper 
classes that give the same level of functionality as the DOM classes 
likely would have the same level of complexity.  They'll only have 
different method names.

While we welcome proposals, we tend not to approve solutions that either 
duplicate or else wrap classes that already exist in PHP 5, unless the 
new solution provides some compelling added value.  Changing all the 
method names to ones that are easier to type is not sufficient added 
value.  ;-)

Regards,
Bill Karwin