method created: processXmlContent() which just returns the PHP array …

[weierophinney]

…instead of converting it to JSON plain text. Method fromXml() calls processXmlContent() method, fromXml() still returns the result as plain text

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Originally posted by @mowses at zendframework/zend-xml2json#11

[weierophinney]

@mowses What problem does it solve? Can you elaborate, please?

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Originally posted by @michalbundyra at zendframework/zend-xml2json#11 (comment)

[weierophinney]

@mowses What problem does it solve? Can you elaborate, please?

As a library for parsing XML I wanted to use zend-xml2json as a third party library to convert XML to PHP variable (Array/Object), so I realized that there are not any method that could do that.
The original method fromXml() has been returning the encoded JSON (as string). Well, I may call Json:decode() after fromXml to convert the returned value to array/object again, but it would be waste of resource.

To accomplish this, I just cut some part of the fromXml() code and paste it in the static method processXmlContent() which now returns the resulting array I needed.
In place of code I cut, I just call the processXmlContent which returns the resulting array, then is encoded by Json::encode, returning the same value and having the exact same behavior as before.

Now anyone can use zend-xml2json with the option to retrieve the XML as PHP variable, instead of only as JSON (string).
To use it just call processXmlContent passing the same parameters as you would for fromXml.

Note: I did not removed nor changed any script behavior. The return from fromXml is still the same as before, so I made sure I did not broke applications who are using this method.

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Originally posted by @mowses at zendframework/zend-xml2json#11 (comment)

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