[XML-SIG] Re: Look what these folks are doing with XML

[Fred L. Drake]

Sean Mc grath writes:
 > How about an "__xml__" method?...

  I presume you mean an __xml__() method that create's the
corresponding XML for the object, and returns it as a string?
  Frankly, I think that's the wrong approach.  The Pickler/Unpickler
classes should be able to do all the XML generation/processing, and
use the existing pickling protocol.  I think this would be very
reasonable, and actually not too hard to do.  Perhaps the entire
pickling/unpickling process could be separated into a frontend/backend 
structure, so that the intermediate structure could be spat out in
XML, the current pickle format, proprietary formats, etc.  Of course,
the performance problem requires separate, dedicated implementations.
;-(


  -Fred

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