XML Marshalling of objects

Markus Schaber markus at schabi.de
Wed Oct 3 03:55:23 EDT 2001


Hi,

Magnus Lie Hetland <mlh at idi.ntnu.no> schrub:

> If one wants one's own format, I'm sure rewriting pickle.py t ouse
> xml should be quite doable.

There's a real easy way to do this.

<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 :-)

markus
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