Re: AW: [PEAR-DEV] [RfC] XML_Serializer

yeah, cute:) one thought was on exporting objects to xml was to follow the following rules a) use an option var to map classname=>'toXMLmethod' -- if this is set use it. (if it returns an array, - use that via the serialize array method..) b) attempt to look for a toXML method -- if there is one - use it. c) fallback to get_object_vars.. +1 = I can see this being usefull for a few things.. Regards Alan Stephan Schmidt wrote:

Hi,

Love it already :-) You have my +1 IF you remove that ugly $GLOBALS[] usage. Just add some class vars for the options and set them in the constructor or via an extra "_setOptions()" method (called by the constructor). Thus you can also get rid of "_adjustOptions()", since you can simply leave the default class-vars values.

I was thinking about this, but then there's no way to call the methods statically.

BTW... also having a matching UNserializer would be really cool...

That's not easy, as there's no type information stored in the XML documents. You may want to take a look at patConfiguration, which allows you to "unserialize" an XML document. Download it at http://www.php-tools.de Stephan