[Phphtmllib-devel] howdy

[Walter A. B. I. <wb...@qu...>]

Hey folks,
  I just wanted to say hi, and see if this list was working, since some
folks have signed up.

I am currently working on version 2.0.0 of the libs, which is a small
rewrite of the base class HTMLTagClass to be based off of 
XMLTagclass, which in turn is a child of Container.

This will let everyone build xml/html/xhtml with the same exact api.
It is 100% compatible w/ the 1.x series of the libs, and should have a
few more bells n whistles.  

I will probably be putting the CVS repository for phphtmllib up on
sourceforge in the next week or so, so folks can check out the latest
and greatest at any time.  Also, if you would like to contribute to the
libs, you can feel free to send me patches for review, and eventually I
will give some folks write access to the cvs repository.  

 I would eventually like to see more widget classes built that add more
value to the libs other then just building xml/html/xhtml tags.  I have
a bunch of widgets that I have built over time for various web
applications.  I personally feel the long term value of the libs is in
the widgets.  
  Widgets are nothing more then classes that help build some html
"widget", such as a table with a border, title, and rows of data.
The purpose of these widgets is to make it much easier to build complex
html structures.  So all the php programmer has to do is worry about 
getting the data, and stuffing that data into the object.
HTMLPageClass is a widget that helps the programmer build a fully
qualified html page.  

Anyways, I'm rambling, so I'll shut the f up :)

Walt