hi

serializing a simple object in XML is simple. Now I was wondering if  
there are good practices to serialize
and reload composed objects.

For example:
     if I have an attribute containing a date, should I do the  
readFromString by hand as a postaction?

     if I have an attribute containing a collection, should I  
recreate the collection after loading?

Are there mechanism where we can describe what to do for each of the  
document tags?
May be I'm dreaming but this sounds so obvious.


Stef