On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:54 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > 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. :-)
I've had no problem with the xml_xxx functions... but as you said, it wasn't 10 lines of code :) http://www.interjinn.com/jinnDoc/interJinn.class.JinnSimpleXml.phtml Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
