New Feed Parser version

There’s a new version (0.2.5alpha) of XML_Feed_Parser in the wild.

I’ve cleaned up the handling of xml:base considerably, finally switching over to using PHP DOM’s baseURI attribute and checking the bases for all links returned, whether from link constructs or in text constructs with the type ‘xhtml’. That coincides with reworking the getText() and getContent() methods for atom so they now properly recognise the different types that the atom spec allows. There’s a little more work to do to properly allow non text/html mime types in atom:content, since I don’t want to return less common mime types without a way for the user to check the type beforehand. That should come in the next version.

I’ve had one enquiry as to whether the package will work for those not using PEAR. It’s dependency on PEAR is limited to the PEAR_Exception class, so for those who genuinely need to use it without PEAR, you could declare an empty class called PEAR_Exception that extends Exception and everything else should work. For those wondering whether there’s any way to get the code working with PHP4, the answer is ’no’ since I make so much use of the PHP5 DOM implementation, plus simplexml and exceptions. For those looking for PHP4 support, check out Magpie.