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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:13:54 -0400
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To: Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] wddx class mapping and pretty print
From: dank@deadmime.org (Dan Kalowsky)
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On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 08:47  AM, Alan Knowles wrote:

> On one of those - xml is too difficult stints, I started thinking 
> about using wddx as a generic storage system - perhaps thinking about 
> things like MDB's data structure and the ability to load data..
>
> I'm still thinking that it would be nice for wddx_deserialize to 
> accept a stream - hence allowing the processing of huge xml files with 
> minimal memory penalty..
>
> This patch does 2 things.
>
> a) a deserialize class mapping - so you can map stored classes into 
> different instantation classes. (usefull when you dont have the 
> original - or just want to map it to something else. - eg use the data 
> with an extended class.

While I can't see myself using this it could be useful... once or twice.

> b) pretty printing of the xml so that it could be hand edited if 
> need.. - or just semi-human readable..

This I like.


Patch didn't look too bad either.

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