• From: "David " <David@B...>
• To: "xml" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:57:17 +0100

> From: Steve Kearon <stevek@f...>



> When opening a file, we tolerate quite a lot (eg someone could add
> attributes/elements that we'll ignore).

	Various issues can arise when you modify
a class, then try to deserialize objects stored by the 
earlier version. So the decision to ignore unknown attributes 
can become important later on. Have a look at Java Serialisation 
and see how they address it.


				David Byrden
				http://byrden.com/rubxml



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