Hi,

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> I have an object that I want to serialize in XML now this object  
> contains a date object
> of course I can save it explicitly as a string and do a readFrom....
> But I wanted to know if there is a more advance serialization process.
>

What means "more advance" ? In the last consequence, you always must  
read/write strings ? I could imagine that it would perhaps an  
advantage if you could express serialization in mappings of objects,  
something like f: A -> B where A is the set of syntactical possible  
objects in Language A  and B is a set of allowed objects in XML DOM (- 
 > the nodes), so you can say the object "collection" maps to  
<collection><item><itemClass>...</ 
itemClass><itemValue>...<itemValue></item>...</collection>. So you  
have a API level in the mid (like .Net)
Or completly different ?

Greetings

Hans