> XML read/write is much slower than access of other class instances. If > you're going to do lots of reading and writing, I would consider converting > the XML data to object data.
As an aside, is there any reason why Adobe hasn't provided API for serializing to/from XML and typed-objects? This certainly exists in a lot of other major platforms (ahem, .NET), and it'd be incredibly useful since we're dealing with web services all the time, etc... Troy.