Serializing XMLDocument

Question

Has anyone run into problems serializing oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument and subsequently running XSLProcessor on it?
My situation involves creating an XMLDocument object, sending it over an object stream from a server to a client, and then running it through the processXSL method of an XSLProcessor object.
As a test, if I use processXSL on the server side before I send the XMLDocument to the client, it works fine. However, if I run it on the client side as soon as I receive the XMLDocument object, the process will produce what appears to be a malformed document.
It's a bit extensive to provide and example, but I will try to get something together for the Oracle team.
Thanks,
Josh Peck
[email protected]
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Answer 1

Well, imagine if we had to do serialization in this
manner (i.e. manually). Not a pretty picture in my
opnion...sure, that's why the API exists... don't take it the other way round and apply serialization to every single piece of data
why do you think that serialization is easier btw ? here's the non-serialized version :
Writer writer = new FileWriter(filename);
writer.write(value); // I assume your text is available in a String named 'value'
writer.close();and here it is with serialization :
JButton container = new JButton(value);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(filename);
ObjectOutputStream outputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
outputStream.writeObject(container);
outputStream.close();Serialization helps you serialize complex objects (like graphical components) easily. It's a relatively heavy mechanism (compared to regular file writing) and shouldn't be used as a standard way of writing text to a file.