XML Marshalling of objects

[Peter Hansen]

David Bolen wrote:
> 
> Markus Schaber <markus at schabi.de> writes:
> 
> > <xml "dtd-declaration here">
> > <pickled_data>Here just follows the data stream from
> > pickle()</pickled_data>
> > </xml>
> >
> > Just write the two-liner dtd for it, and you have pickle outputting
> > valid xml, and with almost no speed loss :-)
> 
> Even if you make the pickled_data element in your DTD a CDATA you're
> going to have to post-process the pickle output to ensure it doesn't
> include any characters that need to be quoted as entities in the XML
> stream (e.g., "<").  Then of course, you've to to invert this on the
> other side, so there's going to be some cost to the encoding/decoding.

There's always 

<xml "dtd-declaration here">
<pickled_data><![CDATA[Here just follows the data stream from pickle()]]></pickled_data>
</xml>

which might be what you meant by CDATA element in a DTD but then again
it might not be (and DTDs are obsolete, aren't they?).  That way you
would have to escape only the sequence ]]> if it were to occur in the
data.

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Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
peter at engcorp.com