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To: Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML's atXPath method
From: php-lists@koalephant.com (Stephen Reay)

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=20

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> On 8 Jan 2017, at 06:19, Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org> wrote:
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> Evening Rowan,
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> Thank you.
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> Now we can get to the really hard problem ... naming things :D
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> 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).
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> There's also XmlNode.SelectSingleNode from C#, but sounds pretty horrible
> to me, variations on it might be:
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>    selectPath
>    singlePath
>    singleNode
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> None of them really sound right to me, but may provoke someone else to do
> better.
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> Over to you, someone else ...
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> Cheers
> Joe
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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>> On 07/01/2017 19:29, Joe Watkins wrote:
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>>> Evening Roawn,
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>>> There is no competition to see which single problem we are going to
>>> solve, we can fix more than one thing, obviously :)
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> Regards,
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>> Rowan Collins
>> [IMSoP]
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