Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] serializing DomDocument objects.

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:10:59 +0200, Christian Stocker wrote:

> 
> 
> On 9/26/03 11:02 AM, Neill Roy wrote:
>>> From: Christian Stocker <[email protected]>
>>> To: neill <[email protected]>
>>> CC: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] serializing DomDocument objects.
>>> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:00:49 +0200
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/26/03 9:52 AM, neill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all. I was just wondering why my attempts to serialize DomDocument
>>>> objects have failed? Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>> what does serializing exactly mean for you?
>>>
>>> $serializedxml = $domdocument->saveXML();
>>>
>>> should serialize it to a string.
>> 
>> 
>> i want to serialize a whole DomDocument _object_ using the
>> serialize() function. something like:
>> $domDoc = new DomDocument()
>> $domDoc->load('foo.xml')
>> file_put_contents('file', serialize($domDoc))
> 
> which is almost the same as
> 
> $domDoc = new DomDocument()
> $domDoc->load('foo.xml')
> file_put_contents('file', $domDoc->saveXML())

but wouldn't

$domDoc = unserialize(file_get_contents('file'))

be faster than doing

$domDoc = new DomDocument()
$domDoc->load('foo.xml')

?

i only thought that this would be the case after reading an article
about the DOM (on devshed i think) that said that one of the downsides of
the DOM was that a tree structure (?) of the xml document needs to be
created, and the process of making the tree can be resource intensive.

obviously, correct me if i'm wrong :)

riot.