XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>]

--- Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2007 11:39 AM, Michael Kay
> <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:
...
> > But the best way to serialize a tree
> representation of an XML document is as
> > XML. So Java serialization really isn't
> appropriate.
> 
> Putting aside technical and idelogical purity,
> sometimes its good to
> serialize document trees, as that way you can
> marshall it over RMI
> with ease
> 
> (a) use JDom; this is a supported use case
> 
> (b) subclass nu.xom.Document, implement
> serialize/deserialize code
> that saves the doc to a UTF8 encoding in a byte
> array, and sends that
> over the wire, converting it at the far end .

While this is certainly possible, the question is, why
bother? Serialization to textual xml can be done in
couple of lines of code and results in a byte array 
(directly or via ByteArrayOutputStream) easily
transmittable using normal methods, be that sending
via sockets, or even sending over RMI as a byte array.

This method is unlikely to be slower end-to-end than
object-serialization alternatives, given how fast xml
parsing and serialization is, and the overhead of
default Java object serialization.

-+ Tatu +-



      
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