alright, time to get motivated enough to write this cursed code ive been avoiding writing for a few days now (fixed bugs etc instead lol)
it involves treating xml like a database so, you might understand why i am reluctant lol. don't ask me why i need it...
@ChocoMintPuppy we covered xml it in our database lecture, it has its own query language and everything
@ChocoMintPuppy dang if only you were using a modern programming language like Javascript
@noiob i would be using typescript in that case :p
c++ can be good though... this is for work etc so no real choice hehe
@ChocoMintPuppy typescript has all js functions doesn't it? js comes with a powerful xml parser since y'know, browsers already need to be able to that
@ChocoMintPuppy I just, and I can't state that enough, don't wanna have to compile Javascript
@noiob okay but its good,,,
i used to be "omg i hate compiling" and preffering JS, but once my projects got bigger i switched and i am NEVER looking back
@ChocoMintPuppy php doesn't need pre-runtime-compiling, if I had a choice I'd serve mostly static pages with a tiny bit of ajax
@ChocoMintPuppy it's suprisingly good these days!
@noiob i haven't touched it in like 10+ years :P
@ChocoMintPuppy oh god that was pre-5
@noiob i was a itty bitty teenage girl back then
@ChocoMintPuppy honestly if we're compiling anyways might as well compile to wasm
@noiob yeah, typescript is basically just typesafe, compiled JS
(it compiles/transpiles into JS at the end afterall)
@noiob i have access to almost none of that so I have to make my own functions for this :)
Using rapidxml for base xml parsing...