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Tyler Baker <tyler@i...> wrote: >> I don't think that this problem is particularly hard. Java has references, >> XML has ID references. You can easily model one with the other. >> >> The only probably is that Java objects serialized as documents are going >> to be <VERY> <VERBOSE>. > >Well it is pretty simple to say IDs are the answer. They are indeed a possibility. Try >coming up with an implementation which resolves circular references and can be rebuilt back >into its original in-memory data structure. Implementation is not as simple as it sounds... Actually from what I recall about the Java serialization specs it should be pretty easy to override all the relevant methods to produce XML-ized output instead of the current one. One could even easily write a converter from the existing serialized format to an XML-ized one and back. It's pretty well behaved. The problem of IDs is already solved by the existing serialization implementation - you just need to make use of it. This might present an interesting alternative to the Coins approach... Just implement two streams: SerializedToXmlFilterOutputStream and XmlToSerializedFilterInputStream. Otherwise use the built-in Java functionality. I doubt whether that would be more then a week or two of work to implement, for someone familiar with the specs. Have fun, Oren Ben-Kiki xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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