On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:34 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering what people's general opinion is on working with XML in PHP? > > I like working with SimpleXML but DomDocument seems more useful in some > cases (e.g. working with XSLT transforms etc.). > > So what do you thing? Or do would you simply create a few utility > classes to handle conversions? > > I have written a utility class myself that represents XML internall in > either DomDocument, SimpleXML or String format and allows you to access > it any of the three which means you can just pass XML "object" around > and use it accordingly depending on the circumstances. > > I'd be interested to hear other peoples thoughts on the matter tho'. I still use PHP4 so I wrote my own XML handling class that wraps the xml_xxx() series of functions. Haven't had a problem with it. Makes working with XML very easy since it uses a path string syntax to focus/access nodes and attributes: 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 General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php