On Wed, July 11, 2007 7:48 pm, Jeff Griffiths wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>> On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Tijnema wrote:
>>> Except for the OO, I don't see anything that can't be done in PHP4,
>>> while it can be done in PHP5. Some workarounds are maybe needed,
>>> but
>>> it mostly doesn't require more than 10 lines of PHP code extra.
>>
>> The SOAP / XML stuff is like night and day.
>>
>> You're not talking 10 lines of code.
>>
>> You're talking hundreds of lines of wack-o code that doesn't really
>> do
>> the job right, and with some squeegy hacks to get at attributes
>> buried
>> within the XML tags, if you can get to them at all...
>
> That reminds me of one of  my all-time fave bits in the online docs -
> all the comments for xml_parse_into_struct():
>
> http://ca.php.net/xml_parse_into_struct
>
> Basically, *years* of people sharing various generic 'xml2array'-like
> functions and classes that would work in both 4 and 5.

I don't think you can actually call any of them "working" though...
:-)

Seriously, they all have some kind of irresolvable issue that you're
going to run into sooner or later if you try to parse XML from a
diverse set of sources.

Anybody using PHP 4 for heavy SOAP/XML usage is just daft, imho. :-)

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