Re: getAttribute()

[Philipp L. <le...@hi...>]

From: "Nigel Swinson" <nig...@us...>
>
> DTDs aren't parsed.  Have observed that this is a deficiency, wasn't sure
> how important it was to our users.  Not sure how complex it would be to
> parse and use either.
>
> Comments?
>

It's nothing critical for me. Of course I validate my XML but usually just
in developing the application, writing test data manually and
programmatically, and then I have other tools available. I think the top
priority is speed (I didn't check out the new debugged 3.0 version yet -- as
I mentioned, the older 3.0 failed with my PHP forum -- but I was really
happy to hear it's apparently so much faster).
Of course it's a tiny problem that e.g. DTD default attribute values (if the
attribute is omitted in the XML) aren't understood, because this means I
have to replicate those values in the PHP in some way.

>..
> I think that the Php.XPath class should stick to returning an unset value
if
> the attribute is not set.   It probably makes for a more useful function.

No, somehow I remember it returning an *error* (script ended) when the
attribute didn't exist (version 2.2) -- I didn't even get the chance to
assign the return value to a variable to check it for being empty/ set (I
test on Windows PHP/ PWS).