Re: Serializing SimpleXML objects?

On Mar 5, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Philip Fletcher wrote:

From the following code snippet, it obviously is, but is it possible to use

them once they're unserialized? $ser_xml = serialize($sxml); //Raises Warning: Node no longer exists in... (twice)

No. Don't do this. :)

This may seem a strange requirement, but I'm attempting to see if deserializing has better performance than simplexml_load_file(). (I'm cacheing portions of a potentially large xml file, so I don't have to load the whole file for every request)

The performance is better, but the results are worse because PHP doesn't actually serialize out the document. :) It doesn't always make sense to cache a fragment of an XML file because you may screw up your namespaces; however, if that's okay, cut it up using asXML() instead. -adam -- adam trachtenberg adam@trachtenberg.com