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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 23:19:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML's atXPath method
From: pthreads@pthreads.org (Joe Watkins)

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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
to me, variations on it might be:

    selectPath
    singlePath
    singleNode

None of them really sound right to me, but may provoke someone else to do
better.

Over to you, someone else ...

Cheers
Joe

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 the time to propose, implement,
>> or fix.
>>
>> This contributor has waited a year for this conversation to start, it
>> would be nice if we could stay focused.
>>
>>
> Indeed, I didn't mean to imply otherwise, and sorry if I gave that
> impression. There is a small cost to adding new methods like this, in
> future maintenance, and the future consistency of the extension, but you're
> right that it's not a big deal, and other than finding the right name, I've
> no real reason to object to this method.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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