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Pedersen, Ryan
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I have extended the XmlDocument class to create a class whose data is stored
as semi-complex XML but have very specific methods to access the data
instead of the general methods that are supplied by XmlDocument.

I want to be able to serialize the class but I am not sure if is better to
use the Save method of the XmlDocument class or make my new class
serializable.

Can someone help?

Ryan Pedersen
Bank of America
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Dan Wahlin
Since it sounds like your class extends XmlDocument by simply adding new
methods, Save() should still do the job since methods in the class
aren't serialized anyway. The base class should still handle the
internal representation of the XML that will be serialized. Are you
getting the expected result when calling Save() on your class? If it
works then there's not much sense in re-inventing the wheel. :)

Dan Wahlin

Wahlin Consulting LLC
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET
http://www.XMLforASP.Net: #1 ASP.NET XML Resource
XML for ASP.NET Developers by Dan Wahlin in bookstores everywhere!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedersen, Ryan [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:44 PM
To: aspngxml
Subject: [aspngxml] Serialization vs Save

-- Moved from [aspngfreeforall] to [aspngxml] by Michiel van Otegem
<Click here to reveal e-mail address> --

I have extended the XmlDocument class to create a class whose data is
stored
as semi-complex XML but have very specific methods to access the data
instead of the general methods that are supplied by XmlDocument.

I want to be able to serialize the class but I am not sure if is better
to
use the Save method of the XmlDocument class or make my new class
serializable.

Can someone help?

Ryan Pedersen
Bank of America
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Pedersen, Ryan
Dan,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I want to add the object to ViewState so that it can be persisted on the
client's web page instead of session.

In order to add it to ViewState with the save command I have to do some
extra work with a XMLTextWriter and was hoping that [Serializable] would be
a short cut.

Any thoughts that you have on this would be greatly appreciated.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wahlin [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:20 PM
To: aspngxml
Subject: [aspngxml] RE: Serialization vs Save

Since it sounds like your class extends XmlDocument by simply adding new
methods, Save() should still do the job since methods in the class
aren't serialized anyway. The base class should still handle the
internal representation of the XML that will be serialized. Are you
getting the expected result when calling Save() on your class? If it
works then there's not much sense in re-inventing the wheel. :)

Dan Wahlin

Wahlin Consulting LLC
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET
http://www.XMLforASP.Net: #1 ASP.NET XML Resource
XML for ASP.NET Developers by Dan Wahlin in bookstores everywhere!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedersen, Ryan [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:44 PM
To: aspngxml
Subject: [aspngxml] Serialization vs Save

-- Moved from [aspngfreeforall] to [aspngxml] by Michiel van Otegem
<Click here to reveal e-mail address> --

I have extended the XmlDocument class to create a class whose data is
stored
as semi-complex XML but have very specific methods to access the data
instead of the general methods that are supplied by XmlDocument.

I want to be able to serialize the class but I am not sure if is better
to
use the Save method of the XmlDocument class or make my new class
serializable.

Can someone help?

Ryan Pedersen
Bank of America
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Dan Wahlin
What type of extra work are you doing? Formatting...or something else
like setting encoding?

Dan

Wahlin Consulting LLC
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET
http://www.XMLforASP.Net: #1 ASP.NET XML Resource
XML for ASP.NET Developers by Dan Wahlin in bookstores everywhere!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedersen, Ryan [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:27 PM
To: aspngxml
Subject: [aspngxml] RE: Serialization vs Save

Dan,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I want to add the object to ViewState so that it can be persisted on the
client's web page instead of session.

In order to add it to ViewState with the save command I have to do some
extra work with a XMLTextWriter and was hoping that [Serializable] would
be
a short cut.

Any thoughts that you have on this would be greatly appreciated.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wahlin [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:20 PM
To: aspngxml
Subject: [aspngxml] RE: Serialization vs Save

Since it sounds like your class extends XmlDocument by simply adding new
methods, Save() should still do the job since methods in the class
aren't serialized anyway. The base class should still handle the
internal representation of the XML that will be serialized. Are you
getting the expected result when calling Save() on your class? If it
works then there's not much sense in re-inventing the wheel. :)

Dan Wahlin

Wahlin Consulting LLC
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET
http://www.XMLforASP.Net: #1 ASP.NET XML Resource
XML for ASP.NET Developers by Dan Wahlin in bookstores everywhere!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedersen, Ryan [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:44 PM
To: aspngxml
Subject: [aspngxml] Serialization vs Save

-- Moved from [aspngfreeforall] to [aspngxml] by Michiel van Otegem
<Click here to reveal e-mail address> --

I have extended the XmlDocument class to create a class whose data is
stored
as semi-complex XML but have very specific methods to access the data
instead of the general methods that are supplied by XmlDocument.

I want to be able to serialize the class but I am not sure if is better
to
use the Save method of the XmlDocument class or make my new class
serializable.

Can someone help?

Ryan Pedersen
Bank of America
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