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

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:35:06 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, neill wrote:
> 
>> > you have a DomDocument with child-elements?
>> > 
>> > No, it's not possible (even if you don't have Child-elements). libxml2 
>> > has no possibility to "serialize" their internal tree and will not have 
>> > in the soon future.
>> > 
>> > Therefore the only solution is to use saveXML(). We could (but i don't 
>> > know the details) wrap that around serialize, but it doesn't make much 
>> > sense to me and speed gain would be zero...
>> 
>> ok. well, maybe you could talk to the other developer's and see if they
>> understand my point - and whether it would be worthwhile to add the
>> ability to serialize DomDocuent objects.
> 
> It's not possible. saveXML GIVES you a serialized form of your 
> DocDocument... that's the whole point of DOM.

say i use saveXML(), and save the "serialized form of my DomDocument" to
a file. if i then load this XML into a DomDocument object (correct me if
i'm wrong) the "internal tree" would still have to be recreated. This is
what i read was resource intensive. this is the process i wanted to avoid
repeating by serializing the object.

but serializing is not possible. no problem.

>> i'm not saying "i'm right you're
>> wrong" or anything like that, all i want is to make my software as fast as
>> possible, and i thought serializing would help by avoiding having to
>> create the "internal tree" again and again.
> 
> Perhaps you'd need to rethink your design...

no. my design is fine :P

> Derick

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