Re: serializing DomDocument objects.

From:	Christian Stocker	Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:27:44 +0000
Subject:	Re: serializing DomDocument objects.
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On 9/26/03 11:12 AM, neill wrote:

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:00:49 +0200, Christian Stocker wrote:
On 9/26/03 9:52 AM, neill wrote:
Hi all. I was just wondering why my attempts to serialize DomDocument objects have failed? Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
what does serializing exactly mean for you? $serializedxml = $domdocument->saveXML(); should serialize it to a string.
i want to serialize the object, not the XML. I have a couple of XML documents that are made into DomDocument objects on each request to my framework. I was hoping to serialize these objects using serialize() so that I wouldn't have to create the DomDocuments each time. Just unserialize() them - which should be a lot faster.

you have a DomDocument with child-elements? No, it's not possible (even if you don't have Child-elements). libxml2 has no possibility to "serialize" their internal tree and will not have in the soon future. Therefore the only solution is to use saveXML(). We could (but i don't know the details) wrap that around serialize, but it doesn't make much sense to me and speed gain would be zero... chregu

Maybe I'm not explaining this very well. riot.