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Posted by boots on 06/04/05 02:50
--- messju mohr <messju@lammfellpuschen.de> wrote:
> honestly: i think simple-xml looks pretty slick at first sight, but
> totally brain-damaged (if not -dead) at second sight. but that
> personal impression may just be by me, because i'm not bright enough
> to get it properly.
I think the jury is still out but I tend to agree with your premise --
I don't know of any in-production uses of these techniques either (at
least with Smarty involved). Then again, I still don't have any PHP5
production sites (though the first is coming in a few weeks).
> ...
>
> if you want to access child-elements of a node use {$node->child},
> if you want to access attributes of a node use {$node.attrname},
> if you want to dump the contents of a node use {$node}
It is definately a "magic" object that takes getting used to. Still, it
seems like it is rather concise and compact once its usage pattern
starts to really sink-in. I hope that happens for me soon.
I just thought I'd mention another interesting use of SimpleXML within
Smarty: access to xpath queries.
eg:
{* use xpath to select 'rating' nodes and show attribute access *}
{foreach from=$simplexml->xpath('/movies/movie/rating') item=node
key=key}
$key: {$key}, $node: {$node}, $node.type: {$node.type}<br />
{/foreach}
http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?p=19729#19729
If you are committed to XML data then SimpleXML can be quite useful
because the old domxml extension was even more frustrating and the SAX
engine, while good, required a lot of tedious and error-prone userland
code to do anything useful.
If you aren't committed to XML data then SimpleXML is just a side-show.
xo boots
> greetings
> messju
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