Hi In the last weeks, whenever i read some comments about php and what is bad about it (besides all the good points :) ), domxml seems to be one of the top issues... Personally I don't have much problems with this extension, but missing docu and the API as a moving target, is something which worries a lot of people. But one of the weakest things about domxml is IMHO that it promises a DOM-API, which it does not provide very consitently and a lot of functionality is still missing.
With all this points, i'd like to start a discussion about starting from scratch with the DOM-API in PHP. Maybe creating a new extension to avoid problems with all the people using domxml already (and therefore not relying on keeping the old API). Furthermore, to make the task in implementing a full w3c-DOM-API a lot easier, i would suggest, we would use libgome2 (http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/) as the underlying library. gdome2 is based on libxml2, but provides a W3C-DOM level2 implementation (not like libxml2, which has it's own DOM-implementation). The only disadvantage is, that it needs libglib as well, so we would add another library to the prerequisites for domxml... (BTW, libgdome2 seems to be compiling under Windows as well) Ideas, thoughts, etc? chregu -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
