On his blog today, Pierre has a new post about his work on the XMLWriter library for PHP - "a writer that provides a non-cached, forward-only means of generating streams or files containing XML data."

Last week I added the last missing features to XMLWriter, the OO interface for php 5, the procedural still works nicely under php4 and php5. One bug remains (windows only) before a last beta release.

Unices users can use the CVS to get the last sources. Windows can fetch the snapshot here: xmlwriter snapshots.

The library is yet another handy, simple way to write XML information in PHP...plus, it only requires PHP 4.3.0 or later, so you non-PHP5ers out there can use it too. For all the details on this package, see this wiki entry or the PECL page for the library.