Thanks for your replies.
To summarise:
Serilaisation is the procedure whereby an 'Entity' is tranaslated into a format that can be universally accessed ? e.g. outputting a ursor or a Dataset into an XML file.
Is this any different than say copying a DBF file to a CSV file , if we assume that a CSV file can be universally read ?
Does the output 'Always' have to be in XML format ?
Regards,
Gerard
>This concept exists in VFP, for example CursorToXml() Serialize a cursor into an XML string, and XMLToCursor Desirialize an XML String back into a cursor.
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>HTH.
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>>I've seen many rferences recently to 'Serilaization' in Dot Net and have never come across this concept in VFP.
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>>Anybody care to give an explanation of whet Serialization is and a few examples of how it can be used ?
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>>Regards,
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>>Gerard
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