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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML and Default Cast To String
From: adam@trachtenberg.com (Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg)

Would be glad for the code, send it me as an attachment cause the list
can be finicky. :)

(Or in other words, it needs to be plain text and end in .txt.)

-adam

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Blake Schwendiman wrote:

> BTW, I can send my source implementation of my toString() method which
> returns the full content.  Then you can do what you need in terms of
> renaming, etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blake Schwendiman
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg" <adam@trachtenberg.com>
> To: "Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net>
> Cc: "Blake Schwendiman" <blake@mediafence.com>; <internals@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML and Default Cast To String
>
>
> > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote:
> >
> > > From my opinion the current behavior is perfect because i see simplexml
> from
> > > an xml developers side and not from an html developers side. The former
> must
> > > typically know exactly where his strings comme from while the latter has
> > > only text to deal with and often has situations where he needs to filter
> out
> > > formatting tags like the <i> in the example.
> >
> > All of my SimpleXML work is strictly XML, too. However, my thought was
> > that I could always call strip_tags() to eliminate the information I
> > didn't want, but there was no apply_tags() function to do the
> > reverse. :) Therefore, it was better to use the other method.
> >
> > > So i'd say let us add a method for returning the complete content. Adam
> > > could you do that?
> >
> > That wouldn't be too difficult (although I am busy for the next day or
> > two). However, as much as I loathe toggles, I'm wondering if it
> > wouldn't be better to make this an object-wide setting. My thought are
> > that on an object-by-object basis, you either always want tags or
> > never want them.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > $sxe = simplexml_load_file('doc.xml');
> > $sxe->displayTags = true;
> >
> > This would keep the interface clean. Or would that just confuse things
> > with more magic?
> >
> > Also, what would the default behavior should be? I can argue both
> > sides of the issue right now. :)
> >
> > -adam
> >
> > --
> > adam@trachtenberg.com
> >
>
>

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