International PHP 2003 Conference on XML
So far the 2003 international PHP conference in Frankfurt have been very interesting. The new improved XML support in PHP5 is outright wonderful.
All the XML modules in PHP5 is based on libxml/libxsl, have complete interoperability and will support caching of DOM trees in shared memory. The XSL and DOM extensions are completely rewritten and old code will break – which is a good thing in this case. Both of these extensions are experimental in PHP4 and has a lot of problems.
As soon as I get home I will start playing around with it and also try and write an article about it (the last article I wrote was in august 2002 so it’s about time). Also, the new SimpleXML extension will give you real power with very little coding. Unfortunately Sterling Hughes said in a session that he think PHP5 will not be available until the summer of 2004. I really hope he is being to pessimistic
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