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Many many thanks go to Sam Blum for not only coding most of the headline
features of this release, but also for guiding me through the incredibly scary
first steps of CVS and WinCvs.
Available from: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmldb
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Phpxml version 1.N.X is technically a branch from the phpxml project
available at http://www.phpxml.org/.
Development seemed to be going much faster than the new releases of phpxml
were, ie 125 messages to the list in 3 weeks, so I took it upon myself to
release 1.N.X versions in the mean time. I am still hoping that Michael will
"approve" the 1.N.X releases, and that they will therefore become not a branch
but 1.X releases instead. I suppose in some ways this is NOT a branch until a
1.1 release of phpxml comes out anyway :o). Discussion for this module occurs
on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maillist.
Known Bugs Outstanding:
- Deleting elements is very slow: Removing element 9
in a list of 10 will cause ALL node paths to be re-calculated, not just the
10th node which needs to be. This becomes cripplingly slow as soon as
your xml is of a sensible size.
Version 1.N.5 - 25th September
- Text content is output in correct order: If you have
"<P> A <B> B </B> C </P>" this will be output as
"<P> A <B> B </B> C </P>" not "<P> A C
<B> B </B> </P>" as it used to be before this version. Our
huge thanks go to Sam Blum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for this fix.
- 50% speed enhancements on reading and searching: The
add_content function got a serious look over by Sam and has managed to make
seriously visible speed increases. Sam Blum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- New DOM style user interface The public interface was
renamed to use DOM style function names. This should make the learning curve
easier for newcommers to the class. The old style interface is still
supported, but is unlikely to be in future releases.
- Class name change to XPath After some discussion and
thought, it seemed that XPath was a much better name than "XML"" for the
class. XML doesn't really tell you what the class does, whereas XPath
describes that it is a class that will allow you to search using the XPath
standard. ie exactly what it is. The modification functions are kinda added
'cos the tree is already there, but principly this module is about searching
using XPath and retrieving the content.
- Filename changed to xpath.class.phpThe filename has
also been changed to reflect the change of name for the class
- Documentation added to the 1.N branch In the form of a
perl script that automatically produces an XML file, that is combined with
an XSL to produce the documentation. This should allow you to quickly update
the documentation when you make your own changes.
- Stacks of style changes. Re-grouping of functions,
comments change to //, etc, etc.
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Cheers all
Nigel
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