Dom\HTMLDocument: prototype.js like DOM-Traversal

[codemasher]

Description

Hi,

I just started diving into the new DOM features that came with PHP 8.4, and wondered if it's possible (and/or in the focus of HTMLDocument) to add some of Prototype's DOM traversal and enumerable features. Prototype may have vanished from the web, but its intuitive traversal methods are to this day unmatched and made working on a HTML tree a breeze.

I've implemented this in PHP before, but it was a pain fighting against the quirks of DOMDocument, XML and the countless DOMNode subclasses, it felt very messy to begin with.

Now before I attempt to implement this again in userland with HTMLDocument: is there any chance to even consider such features, or is this out of focus?

[Girgias]

Quite honestly this seems unlikely, unless someone is willing to write the C code. And even then I'm not sure adding the complexity of this to the extension is warranted.