LOL .. again ... now it parses deep array structures, but does not enter the content into a CDATA Area ... So far a & seems to be a impossible char forteh rest Server ..
it isnt for the JSON Server so i patched the thing a little bit ;) I guess the guys at Zend are a bit of brain only workers ..... could be that i missed reading some tutorial or so .. but works anyway.

Changed: U   library/Zend/Rest/Server.php
A   ws/json_server.php
Diff: Modified: library/Zend/Rest/Server.php ===================================================================
--- library/Zend/Rest/Server.php    2007-03-12 12:06:30 UTC (rev 107)
+++ library/Zend/Rest/Server.php    2007-03-12 13:41:19 UTC (rev 108)
@@ -304,12 +304,13 @@
             }
 
             if (is_array($value) || is_object($value)) {
-                $element = $dom->createElement($key);
+                $element = $dom->createElement($key);
                 $this->_structValue($value, $dom, $element);
             } else {
-                $element = $dom->createElement($key, $value);
+                $element = $dom->createElement($key);
+                $data = $dom->createCDATASection($value);
+                $element->appendChild($data);
             }
-               
             $parent->appendChild($element);
         }
     }

silly, but the zend rest server does not serialize nested arrays ... so i came up with a little fix (for the .7.0 incubator):

--- library/Zend/Rest/Server.php 2007-03-07 11:18:03 UTC (rev 39)
+++ library/Zend/Rest/Server.php 2007-03-07 12:23:40 UTC (rev 40)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
}

$method = $function->getName();
-
+
if ($class) {
$xml = "<$class generator='zend' version='1.0'>";
$xml .= "<$method>";
@@ -222,7 +222,15 @@
if (ctype_digit((string) $key)) {
$key = 'key_' . $key;
}
- $xml .= "<$key>$value</$key>";
+ if (is_array($value))
+ {
+ $xml .= "<$key>" . $this->_to_xml($value). "</$key>";
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ $xml .= "<$key>$value</$key>";
+ }
+
}

if (!$has_status) {
@@ -236,6 +244,21 @@
return $xml;
}

+
+ function _to_xml($data)
+ {
+ $xml = '';
+ foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
+ if (is_array($value))
+ {
+ $xml .= _to_xml($value);
+ continue;
+ }
+ $xml .= '<' . $key . '>' . $value . '</' . $key . '>';
+ }
+ return $xml;
+ }
+
/**
* Handle a single value
*

Rant: I killed the experimental usage if PHPUnit and will rewrite ALL my tests to Simpletest (again).
Why?
I seem way to stupid to follow the guides for test grouping and was not able to get it running. I am very sorry, after some multiple thousand tests in PHP, Python and some in Java it must be possible to use the test runner and all its aspects w.o. getting a degree in informatics. One point may be using a framework with proper error messages:

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite::addTest() must implement interface PHPUnit_Framework_Test, string given, called in /home/mruser/public_html/xe2zend/tests/Tpdb/AllTests.php on line 26 and defined in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestSuite.php on line 234

The test runs out of the box but does not when grouped, the manual has nothing to tell me neither has google ;)

Since Simpletest actually dies w.o. any error message when checking for Exceptions actually, there seems nothing left than cheating a bit with simpletest and use Marcus Bakers trick to test on Exceptions ;) (Thats why i wanted to change to PHPUnit)

function test...() {
    try {
        // throw here.
    } catch (Exception $e) {
    }
    $this->fail('This should have thrown');
}

OMFG ... thank good its friday (and i have to go to work 2morrow) G*