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On Dec 13, 2004, at 17:51, Michael Kay wrote: > If the data type really can vary from one instance to another, then you > might possibly need something like this. I would tend to use the XML > Schema > syntax: > > <dict> > <entry> > <key xsi:type="xs:string">aKey</key> > <value xsi:type="xs:integer">101</value> > </entry> > </dict> > > In practice I think it's much more common that the data types are > implicit. In the specific case I'm dealing with, both keys and values can be of any type. One of the usage scenario is to serialized any type of object [1] [2] along the line of what JSX [3], XMLEncoder [4] or XStream [5] does while keeping the resulting XML more or less readable. Cheers, PA. [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html [2] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Archiving/ index.html [3] http://jsx.org/ [4] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/beans/XMLEncoder.html [5] http://xstream.codehaus.org/
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