On 5/5/06, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Costin Manolache wrote: > On 5/5/06, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder will save all the attributes, and lose > comments > in the round trip. Yep. I'm not trying to save comments in my case -- just configuration values. What I feel is missing is that I persist *values*. I cannot persist the notion that the value was obtained via $(propertyName) substitution in the XML, for example.
Yes, that's hard. It may be possible to preserve them when using DOM if the user didn't change them - but if the user sets a value the $() is lost.
I'm not sure what you mean by "having only the modified elements". XMLEncoder only saves attributes that differ from their default values, if that's what you mean.
I didn't know this - how does it find the defaults ? I'm not talking only about default values of a property, but also in the object hierarchy, tomcat creates a lot of components by default, if you don't specify a manager or logger, a default one will be created. Seems pretty specific to tomcat - can't see how XMLEncoder would guess that. Costin
