Hey all,
Is there a major issue with simply adding a $limit parameter to the existing
xpath() method instead, and stopping searching after that many elements are
found?
Cheers
Stephen
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> On 8 Jan 2017, at 06:19, Joe Watkins wrote:
>
> Evening Rowan,
>
> Thank you.
>
Evening Rowan,
Thank you.
Now we can get to the really hard problem ... naming things :D
I'm afraid I have no good suggestions. I can find API's that use the
suggested name, but they vary in functionality (some overlap).
There's also XmlNode.SelectSingleNode from C#, but sounds pretty horrible
On 07/01/2017 19:29, Joe Watkins wrote:
Evening Roawn,
There is no competition to see which single problem we are going to
solve, we can fix more than one thing, obviously :)
What we are discussing here is the value of this particular feature,
not the value of things that nobody has taken th
Evening Roawn,
There is no competition to see which single problem we are going to solve,
we can fix more than one thing, obviously :)
What we are discussing here is the value of this particular feature, not
the value of things that nobody has taken the time to propose, implement,
or fix.
This c
On 07/01/2017 17:01, Joe Watkins wrote:
Evening Rowan,
I must protest: It is wasteful, unclear, and generally nasty, to
create, return, and manipulate an array if you are only ever going to
reference one element in code.
Meh, feels like a micro-optimisation to me, and "[0] to access first
s
2017-01-07 18:01 GMT+01:00 Joe Watkins :
> Evening Rowan,
>
> I must protest: It is wasteful, unclear, and generally nasty, to create,
> return, and manipulate an array if you are only ever going to reference one
> element in code.
>
> It is quite normal to know the structure of a document ahead of
Evening Rowan,
I must protest: It is wasteful, unclear, and generally nasty, to create,
return, and manipulate an array if you are only ever going to reference one
element in code.
It is quite normal to know the structure of a document ahead of time, and
this would allow you to write more succinc
On 06/01/2017 14:03, Willian Veiga wrote:
Hello,
What do you think about a new method, called atXPath, that would return a
single SimpleXMLElement?
Details:
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1717
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45201
Thank you, Willian.
My first thought on this was "what
Hello,
What do you think about a new method, called atXPath, that would return a
single SimpleXMLElement?
Details:
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1717
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45201
Thank you, Willian.
