Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] Serializing SimpleXML objects?

On Mar 5, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Philip Fletcher wrote:

>> From the following code snippet, it obviously is, but is it possible 
>> to use
> them once they're unserialized?
>
> $ser_xml = serialize($sxml);
>
> //Raises Warning: Node no longer exists in... (twice)

No. Don't do this. :)

> This may seem a strange requirement, but I'm attempting to see if
> deserializing has better performance than simplexml_load_file(). (I'm
> cacheing portions of a potentially large xml file, so I don't have to 
> load
> the whole file for every request)

The performance is better, but the results are worse because PHP 
doesn't actually serialize out the document. :)

It doesn't always make sense to cache a fragment of an XML file because 
you may screw up your namespaces; however, if that's okay, cut it up 
using asXML() instead.

-adam

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