[Typo3-dev] PHP problem revived

[dan frost]

Martin-no$pam-Kutschker wrote:
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> dan frost wrote:
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>> Hello all.
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>> Thought i'd throw my ideas in - as usual, they may be very unpopular...!
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>> As php5 has such very, very powerful XML tools (compared to php4.x) 
>> why not make the TCA into XML? E.g.
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> 
> Because Typo3 would then have a dependency on PHP 5?
> 

This will happen one day - perhaps in a year or so.

Ok - not version 3.7. But i think that things like xpath, which allows 
you to find things nested deep inside multidimension data structures, 
will speed up things and clear up horrid nested foreachs/whiles/fors.

Also, thinking about it now, array to xml to array tto xml to array .... 
etc makes my head spin. I would argue that it's bad practice: in 
database design you should to store things in the form they will be used 
(atomic / data format).

Just trying to provoke you...

dan