> Does anybody have good examples how SimpleXMLDecoder works ? I've never found a good one. Senocular has a library called XMLDefinition (google it). I've not looked at it too much, but it superficially appears to do what you're looking for.
I don't like the idea of passing the XML into the object for it to self-populate (or its counterpart spitting out a piece of XML for serialization). In my mind, serialization (which is what this is) is a related but independent class from the model itself. Of course, that's not a weird suggestion... its how Java implements serialization and how AS3 does it generically as well. Though frustratingly these dynamic languages don't provide general purpose API for doing it with strong typing. Come on, Adobe, XML is the lingua franca of the web (if not of business software) and its a native type in AS3. There should be trivial, native serialization of objects with strong types to and from XML (in the same way that there is for the, ahem, proprietary AMF format). Troy.
