Introduction

The XML Serialization format provides a way to marshall application objects using a simple set of XML elements.

XML Serialization provides four elements for encoding objects, a dictionary, a CaList, a scalar, and a ref element. dictionary, CaList, and scalar elements support reusing content with an id attributed that can be referred to using the ref attribute of the ref element. scalar elements support a type attribute to declare the type of scalar, and an encoding attribute to declare it's encoding [refer to HTTP-ng UUIDs? for types and encodings, I think]. dictionary elements support a class attribute that marks this dictionary as an object, with the keys as field or property names [also UUIDs?]. dictionary, CaList, and scalar elements support a length attribute that gives the number of pairs in a dictionary, the number of elements in a list, or the parsed length of the text of a scalar.