[development] Re: [consulting] managing many sites

[Larry Garfield]

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 09:03 am, James Walker wrote:
> I've mumbled about working on an xml.inc (and feed.inc on top of that)
> where xml.inc would provide a "drupal-ish" general framework for xml
> parsing & writing, and feed.inc would layer on top of that to do the RSS
>   / Atom / etc specific bits on top of that ...
>
> obviously, not as a 4.7 thing... but I have been (and will be more so)
> dealing with enough webservices (that speak all XML) that this is a
> thing who's time has come.

I'd recommend writing/finding a PHP4 port of the PHP5 XML handling routines.  
If someone is using Drupal under PHP 5, it makes sense to just use SimpleXML, 
as it really is just that; simple.  That would also provide a good 
performance boost under PHP5.

I'd be surprised if there isn't one out there already that's GPLed.  A 
"Druplification" layer on top of it should be very thin indeed, if it's 
needed at all.

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