I will not object to having the package named serialize if it makes sense from a DOM/XSLT semantic, I just hold that it's going to get people confuse because Java semantics are a bit different and more common.
arkin Assaf Arkin wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I missed most of this discussion, but: If by "print" you mean "render as > > XML syntax", the DOM group refers to that operation as "serialize". > > > > (Serialization is another one of the issues on the table for DOM Level 3.) > > I do mean render as some syntax, could be XML, HTML, PDF, etc. Which is > where XSLT would probably mean output. > > I dislike serialization because there's a lot of demand for what Java > referes to as serialization, which works on the state of an object, not > a DOM. In my opinion it will create confusion. In the Java case, it will > also work both way: serialize and unserialize, in the XML case there's > only output. > > arkin > > > > > ______________________________________ > > Joe Kesselman / IBM Research > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > Assaf Arkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CTO http://www.exoffice.com > Exoffice, The ExoLab Company tel: (650) 259-9796 -- ____________________________________________________________ Assaf Arkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO http://www.exoffice.com Exoffice, The ExoLab Company tel: (650) 259-9796
