> > Two ways

And a third one: WORK on a serialized file :)

In our PDOM (free download at http://xml.darmstadt.gmd.de/xql) an XML 
file is compiled to a binary random access file. On top of this is a 
live-object manager that transparently translates DOM operations into 
updates of the binary file. Thus: no in memory DOM, but a persistent 
filebased DOM. No need to serialize, its serialized all the time.

	++im

P.S. There is a paper on this (done for OOPSLA'99) which I can send 
on request.

> >
> > 1) if your DOM is ofTXDocument class then you can use method
> > printWithFormat(Writer w)(sorry I am not sure of the name but it is
> > there) avaible in TXDocument
> > 2) See the code in DOMWriter available in samples directory I think
> >
> > By the way, there does not seem to be any formal way in DOM for

In the PDOM.domutil package all of those helper functions are 
contained.

> > a) creating an empty DOM
> > b) reading from an XML
> > c) writing out it as again as an XML
> >
> > Since DOM is "XML in memory" and XML is "serialized DOM" how come the
> > relationship between the two is not defined at all.

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