XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:08:43 -0500, Elliotte Harold
<elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Steve Loughran wrote:
> 
> > Is there an underlying reason why this is impossible, or is it just
> > lack of time/need, in which case I will sit down and do it
> 
> Non-implementation of the Serializable interface is a deliberate design
> decision. See
> 
> http://www.xom.nu/designprinciples.xhtml#d0e312

I thought there may be some architectural issue, but then given the
W3C seem to be well on their way to approving binary wire marshallings
of XML, felt there may be some room for manoevre.

The problem I am having is that the nodes are part of a graph of
distributed deployment of objects; you may have a bit of the graph in
one process/host, and a bit more elsewhere. Java RMI works as the
comms layer, but it really depends on serialisation. the XML
representation works for documents, but not pieces of the graph.

-steve