On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> Its XML's SQL/regular expressions, draw what analogies to string processing
> that you will, but I don't see:
>
> $results = simplexml_query($element, '/child::node()');
> foreach ($results as $result) {
> echo $result;
> }
>
> Signifigantly more complex then:
>
> $results = $element->getChildren();
> foreach ($results as $result) {
> echo $result;
> }
I do see it that way. The first one forces the user to learn a new
(significantly complex) language to perform simple operations, even if
it provides a more "powerful abstraction".
- Andrei
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