Hi,
I have a feature request. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a
toString() or perhaps nodeValue() method in SimpleXML's SimpleXMLElement
class? It might make it more obvious that the element is still a
SimpleXMLElement object when you want to actually use it (when you print
it, the value automagically casts to a string internally, so users might
think that it will be casted to a string when you directly access it
without a specified property/method, which is not the case). I know that
the docs say that you should cast it to a string when you want to do a
comparison, but apart from that just being an example, maybe my
suggestion is a more obvious one to notice?
regards,
Leendert
Hello Leendert,
having a function __toString() would interfere with the mapping ideas of
SimpleXML. However it is there internally so you simply do one of the
following:
php -r '$x=SimpleXML_load_string("<?xml version="1.0"?><root>blablabla</root>"); echo $x, "\n"; var_dump((string)$x);'
regards
marcus
further questions please to general@php.net
Monday, February 14, 2005, 1:23:44 PM, you wrote:
Hi,
I have a feature request. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a
toString() or perhaps nodeValue() method in SimpleXML's SimpleXMLElement
class? It might make it more obvious that the element is still a
SimpleXMLElement object when you want to actually use it (when you print
it, the value automagically casts to a string internally, so users might
think that it will be casted to a string when you directly access it
without a specified property/method, which is not the case). I know that
the docs say that you should cast it to a string when you want to do a
comparison, but apart from that just being an example, maybe my
suggestion is a more obvious one to notice?
regards,
Leendert
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Best regards,
Marcus mailto:helly@php.net