comparison vendor/consolidation/output-formatters/src/StructuredData/Xml/XmlSchemaInterface.php @ 0:4c8ae668cc8c

Initial import (non-working)

+<?php
+
+namespace Consolidation\OutputFormatters\StructuredData\Xml;
+
+/**
+ * When using arrays, we could represent XML data in a number of
+ * different ways.
+ *
+ * For example, given the following XML data strucutre:
+ *
+ * <document id="1" name="doc">
+ *   <foobars>
+ *     <foobar id="123">
+ *       <name>blah</name>
+ *       <widgets>
+ *         <widget>
+ *            <foo>a</foo>
+ *            <bar>b</bar>
+ *            <baz>c</baz>
+ *         </widget>
+ *       </widgets>
+ *     </foobar>
+ *   </foobars>
+ * </document>
+ *
+ * This could be:
+ *
+ *  [
+ *    'id' => 1,
+ *    'name'  => 'doc',
+ *    'foobars' =>
+ *    [
+ *       [
+ *         'id' => '123',
+ *         'name' => 'blah',
+ *         'widgets' =>
+ *         [
+ *            [
+ *              'foo' => 'a',
+ *              'bar' => 'b',
+ *              'baz' => 'c',
+ *            ]
+ *         ],
+ *       ],
+ *    ]
+ *  ]
+ *
+ * The challenge is more in going from an array back to the more
+ * structured xml format.  Note that any given key => string mapping
+ * could represent either an attribute, or a simple XML element
+ * containing only a string value. In general, we do *not* want to add
+ * extra layers of nesting in the data structure to disambiguate between
+ * these kinds of data, as we want the source data to render cleanly
+ * into other formats, e.g. yaml, json, et. al., and we do not want to
+ * force every data provider to have to consider the optimal xml schema
+ * for their data.
+ *
+ * Our strategy, therefore, is to expect clients that wish to provide
+ * a very specific xml representation to return a DOMDocument, and,
+ * for other data structures where xml is a secondary concern, then we
+ * will use some default heuristics to convert from arrays to xml.
+ */
+interface XmlSchemaInterface
+{
+    /**
+     * Convert data to a format suitable for use in a list.
+     * By default, the array values will be used.  Implement
+     * ListDataInterface to use some other criteria (e.g. array keys).
+     *
+     * @return \DOMDocument
+     */
+    public function arrayToXml($structuredData);
+}