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Re: [newbie] Mapping a Map 101?

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• Subject: Re: [newbie] Mapping a Map 101?
• From: PA <petite.abeille@g...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:53:43 +0100
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On Dec 13, 2004, at 17:51, Michael Kay wrote:

> If the data type really can vary from one instance to another, then you
> might possibly need something like this. I would tend to use the XML  
> Schema
> syntax:
>
>  <dict>
>       <entry>
>  	    <key xsi:type="xs:string">aKey</key>
>  	    <value xsi:type="xs:integer">101</value>
>       </entry>
>  </dict>
>
> In practice I think it's much more common that the data types are  
> implicit.

In the specific case I'm dealing with, both keys and values can be of  
any type.

One of the usage scenario is to serialized any type of object [1] [2]  
along the line of what JSX [3], XMLEncoder [4] or XStream [5] does  
while keeping the resulting XML more or less readable.

Cheers,

PA.

[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html
[2]  
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Archiving/ 
index.html
[3] http://jsx.org/
[4] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/beans/XMLEncoder.html
[5] http://xstream.codehaus.org/

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