[development] Re: [consulting] managing many sites

[James Walker]

On 12/14/05 12:13 AM, Larry Garfield wrote:
> 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.

Indeed the idea is a thin layer on a simplexml-alike api for php4 (and 
yes, wrap simple if php5). I've not found one for php4, but i've not 
looked hard yet.

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