binarycloud-dev

Re:Re: [binarycloud-dev] xml2php testers needed

[Manuel L. <man...@uo...>]

Hello,

>>> Hello,
>>=20
>> Mind me for asking (I just arrived), what is xml2php? I=B4m just wonde=
ring if it
>> would not have much to with the goals of MetaL: http://www.meta-langua=
ge.net/
>>=20
>> Regards,
>> Manuel Lemos
>>=20
>
>The idea behind xml2php is much more simple than metal, it's a utility
>designed to take xml "array syntax" and create php arrays from the xml.
>
>Briefly:
>
>    <root>
>        <array>
>            <element1>value</element1>
>            <element2>value</element2>
>        </array>
>    </root>
>
>    $root =3D array(
>        'element1' =3D> 'value',
>        'element2' =3D> 'value'
>    );
>
>Useful for configuration files, etc that shouldn't be xml at runtime, bu=
t
>nice to edit xml instead of a php array.

Funny, that is exactly the purpose of one of the modules of MetaL: applic=
ation global options. :-)

Actually, I told you before that there is a great deal of overlap in Bina=
ryCloud and Integral, which is Web based integrated system of modular app=
lications.


>Actually, manuel, I think this list is an appropriate place to discuss
>MetaL, as I certainly intend to work with it an support it within
>binarycloud.

I would prefer that it would be discussed in the MetaL development mailin=
g list, but since it is not open publically until I open the source of Me=
taL to the general public, I guess it is ok to discuss anything related h=
ere because currently MetaL is most oriented to generate PHP than any oth=
er language.

So, what do you want to discuss about MetaL?

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Re: [binarycloud-dev] xml2php testers needed

[Jason H. <jc...@ey...>]

Just an off-the-wall question:

What about attributes?
<element1 this="that" foo="bar">value</element1>

Will they be supported in xml2php?

jason


> >The idea behind xml2php is much more simple than metal, it's a utility
> >designed to take xml "array syntax" and create php arrays from the xml.
> >
> >Briefly:
> >
> >    <root>
> >        <array>
> >            <element1>value</element1>
> >            <element2>value</element2>
> >        </array>
> >    </root>
> >
> >    $root = array(
> >        'element1' => 'value',
> >        'element2' => 'value'
> >    );
> >
> >Useful for configuration files, etc that shouldn't be xml at runtime, but
> >nice to edit xml instead of a php array.

Re: [binarycloud-dev] xml2php testers needed

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> 
> Just an off-the-wall question:
> 
> What about attributes?
> <element1 this="that" foo="bar">value</element1>
> 
> Will they be supported in xml2php?

Not at the moment.

That's a difficult one:

Say you have a structure like:

    <root>
        <elements>
            <element this="chang" foo="bar">klang</element1>
            <element this="that" foo="bar">value</element1>
        </elements>
    </root>

So, what does the php look like?

$root = array(
    array(
        'attributes' => array(
            'this' => 'chang',
            'foo' => 'bar'
        ),
        'value' => 'klang'
    ),
    array(
        'attributes' => array(
            'this' => 'that',
            'foo' => 'bar'
        ),
        'value' => 'value'
    )
);

?

Or

$root = array(
    array(
        'this' => 'chang',
        'foo' => 'bar',
        'value' => 'klang'
    ),
    array(
        'this' => 'that',
        'foo' => 'bar',
        'value' => 'value'
    )
);


etc..

at the moment, there isn't a need, we do:

Page Definitions
Language Definitions
Configuration
Datasources
Operations
Roles

And none of those use complex xml syntax.

To be honest I can't think of a reason they would.... can you?

_a

Re: [binarycloud-dev] xml2php

[Jason H. <jc...@ey...>]

No I can't think of a case where they would be needed either, though I
noticed the support for attribues in XMLUtils.php, so I assumed it would
parse them as well.

just curious



Alex Black wrote:
> > What about attributes?
> > <element1 this="that" foo="bar">value</element1>
> >
> > Will they be supported in xml2php?
> 
> Not at the moment.

Re: [binarycloud-dev] xml2php

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> No I can't think of a case where they would be needed either, though I
> noticed the support for attribues in XMLUtils.php, so I assumed it would
> parse them as well.

Oh really? Cool. Well, if we decide we need attributes, we can use 'em
easily :)

_a