Thank you Troy, for your suggestions. I cannot understand one thing, using SimpleXMLDecoder i got Object from XML BUT I cannot make this ObjectProxy cast to my Album Object. What is the condition to cast object.... fields are same, I cant understand how does it works :(
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Troy Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. >
