[XML-SIG] Simple WDDX Serialization

[Gabe Wachob]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Paul Prescod wrote:

> Gabe Wachob wrote:
> > 
> > OK, I have not been following the serialization thread very closely.
> > 
> > I want to put together a simple WDDX serializer, and I want to throw out
> > my idea to see if anyone can see any major problems.
> 
> You should probably build on the work that Andrew Kuchling is doing in his
> "universal serializer."

I saw mentions of this, but I have seen this. Pointers? 

> 
> > String -> String
> > 
> > For the dateTime WDDX type, I am thinking either 1) do pattern matching on
> > strings to determine if they are valid time/dates -- if so, make them
> > dateTime WDDX elements, or 2) if a string begins with a magic code, then
> > the rest of the string is interpreted as a dateTime element. 
> 
> Autosensing of either sort seems dangerous. Also, Python dates can be
> encoded as integers and tuples. (see the time module for more information.
> What we need is to ship some particular date/time class with the XML
> package and require people to use it on both input and output.

Well, thats fine -- I'm just trying to suggest something I can do now... 

> > We could also
> > have a flag in the serializer which turns on or off serialization into
> > dateTime globally for the serialization of a particular object.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.

Not important -- basically to allow globally for NOT doing the
autosensing. 

	-Gabe

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