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diff --git a/ext/simplexml/README b/ext/simplexml/README deleted file mode 100755 index bb9240d103..0000000000 --- a/ext/simplexml/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -SimpleXML is meant to be an easy way to access XML data. - -SimpleXML objects follow four basic rules: - -1) properties denote element iterators -2) numeric indices denote elements -3) non numeric indices denote attributes -4) string conversion allows to access TEXT data - -When iterating properties then the extension always iterates over -all nodes with that element name. Thus method children() must be -called to iterate over subnodes. But also doing the following: -foreach ($obj->node_name as $elem) { - // do something with $elem -} -always results in iteration of 'node_name' elements. So no further -check is needed to distinguish the number of nodes of that type. - -When an elements TEXT data is being accessed through a property -then the result does not include the TEXT data of subelements. - -Known issues -============ - -Due to engine problems it is currently not possible to access -a subelement by index 0: $object->property[0]. - -TODO -==== - -At the moment property access to multiple elements of the same -name returns an array of SimpleXML objects. This should be an -object of a new type instead so that all kinds of linkage, -assignment and deleting would work. |