Comments on A Basketful Of Papayas: Using PHP DOM With XPath

Thomas, Great post. I too find that for most task...

2010-04-14T18:50:21.701+02:00

Thomas,

Great post. I too find that for most tasks, I like using DOM over SimpleXML. For me, I prefer to use one interface versus switching between DOM and SimpleXML. DOM can do everything that SimpleXML can do and more. For instance, I can't use SimpleXML to validate against an XML schema document.

BTW, I may have to check out your FluentDOM. Looks interesting.

I have FluentDOM for that. :-)

2010-04-11T01:43:18.917+02:00

I have FluentDOM for that. :-)

Another method is to use QueryPath. One line to lo...

2010-04-11T00:38:41.707+02:00

Another method is to use QueryPath. One line to load and simple to iterate over. (http://querypath.org/)

I respect doing it with DOM objects but I prefer to write less code.

I was using the validation functions of dom a shor...

2010-04-10T21:10:01.501+02:00

I was using the validation functions of dom a short time ago and i was amazed how complete it was, Maybe i smoked too much javascript over the last months, but the result was pretty clean and it felt right to do it all in dom.
After a some tries i even found ways not to end up with a piece of code only a fast refactoringsurgery could save ;))) Dom is not what you want to do all day long, but it's mature enough for 99% of the XML solutions i needed to create ;)

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XQuery can be a really cool way to do XML processi...

2010-04-10T20:41:59.387+02:00

XQuery can be a really cool way to do XML processing with PHP: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-zorba/index.html