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Well it didn't take me as long as I initially thought...so now its back to working on that branched template engine!

Well sadly, I have to announce even more delays. After working with the xml_parse_into_sruct method for a while...I noticed it doesn't place comments or processing instructions into the two arrays it outputs. This is not good for my purposes...i need those PI instructions...it would also have been nice to have the <!DOCTYPE tags essential to XHTML parsed into these arrays too...but nope.

So now I am off to re-invent the wheel. I have to use the traditional xml_parse() method and built my own version of the xml_parse_into_struct method. One that includes EVERYTHING inside the xml document!! oi!

Sorry folks, no Alpha release for a few more days. Instead I have taged the current source as pre-a-r1. You can download this version of the module from CVS if you wish...but it will contain broken and incomplete code.

After working so hard trying to get the algorithms right for the template engine using the xml_parse() method. I've decided to scrap that idea all together. I would ideally like to use the DOMxml functions to parse the template files, but this requres a special PHP setup. So I want to keep my core phpWebEngine as simple as possible to install. So I am going to investigate the use of xml_parse_into_struct. Which gives me a tree representation of an XML document in 2 seperate arrays. This should make my life a lot easier!!

I've been working around the clock pretty much...Sun up till way past Sun down...

I am getting very close to releasing an Alpha version, a pre-alpha release can be seen working on the projects home page http://phpwebengine.sourceforge.net/

Sorry no API's posted yet. But I can assure you when the Alpha is released...I'll take a few moments to update all the documentation

Well I have finally decided after much testing to use PHPDocumentor to document my source code. I am moving into PHP from Java, so I am familiar with JavaDoc style comments. I wanted to be able to continue this in my PHP source...PHPDoc (the one that actually uses JavaDoc) seemed to have issues building the package structures...So I opted for the PHP driven PHPDocumentor.

I have been busy editing all my source files to bring them up to speed with the features of PHPDocumentor. And soon an online API for my source will be available at the projects home page. http://phpwebengine.sourceforge.net... read more

Well this is it, time to make this public. There may not be very much here right now, but come back frequently over the next few days and even weeks...and you'll start to see this place take shape!