DOMDocument programming: a lot of little dilemmas, how to solve them?
- by Peter Krauss
I need elegance and performance: how to decide by the "best implementation" for each DOM algorithm that I face. This simple "DOMNodeList grouper" illustrate many little dilemmas:
use iterator_to_array or "populate an array", when not all items need to be copied.
use clone operator, cloneNode method or import method?
use parentNode::method() or documentElement::method? (see here)
first removeChild or first replaceChild, no avoids "side effects"?
...
My position, today, is only "do an arbitrary choice and follow it in all implementations" (like a "Convention over configuration" principle)... But, there are another considerations? About performance, there are some article showing benchmarks?
PS: this is a generic DOM question, any language (PHP, Javascript, Python, etc.) have the problem.
