I'm sorry but I don't agree with this plugin's name or usage. It simply appends multiple valid xml together so the result could be invalid xml and include multiple root elements. In my opinion, the result of any method named .toXML() should be valid xml and the following tests should result in valid XML documents.
IE: domDoc.loadXML( $([ item1, item2 ]).toXML() ); FF: (new DOMParser()).parseFromString( $([ item1, item2 ]).toXML(), "text/xml" ); Tony Collins -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christof Donat Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:02 AM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] New plugin: toXML (XML serializer) Hi, > The thing is, the main use case for a toXML() call is to send XML data > via an ajax request. Well, I could imagine that there may be other usecases as well, like doing search and replace operations on the string representation of a XML which is reparsed afterwards. It was just a joke, but you may look at that "use case" which could be usefull for XML-Data as well: http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2006/07/erlaubt/#comment7262 > The duration of the request greatly overshadows any optimisation that > could be applied to toXML. Well, there are also use cases, where you can assume a really fast network connections (inhouse with 1GB-Ethernet e.g.) and thus work with huge datasets on the client side. Then suddenly the time, the client and server need to process the request becomes the dominating factor. I think that jQuery could also be really usefull for Applications using XULrunner (I haven't tried yet) and thus there are many other use cases like e.g. working with RDF-Data, etc. - OK, we don't need to emulate XMLSerializer then. > Also, I don't think it is a good idea to attempt to implement an > XMLSerializer object for the sake of it, especially when the full > interface isn't being implemented You are right here of course. I was too lazy to look for the XMLSerializer-interface and see if the other functions can also be simulated so easy. > As a rule I live by the KISS principle, and never optimise code unless > it becomes a bottleneck, and then only do so under profiling conditions. Well, KISS is an optimization strategy :-) Most of the time code is fast when it is simple, but "most of the time" is not "always". Christof _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
