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

Hi, > I'm not the one writing the code, so if Stephan feels that it is > important to make sure that it isn't possible to ever change the > functionality in the future in order to control inputs, then a static > method is the answer. My opinion is that extendability is important, > and that inputs are still controlled even with this ability to extend, > but that is my opinion. The class still WILL be extendible. What I'm trying to say is that if you convert attributes to string, the result will always be the same as you have to follow strict rules for this. The same goes for replacing XML entities, creating an XML declaration, and so on. So there's no need for object properties to customize the methods for different instances. Stephan