[7.4] XML marshalling: key / keyRef

Hi Joachim,

Notice that if all you want to do is to serialise and deserialise objects you can use SIXX which is excellent and simple for these things (But then that might not be the case).

Rgrds,

@+Maarten,

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> Hello there,
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> now that my anyCollection problem seems to be solved, I stumbled right into the next one...
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> I seem to have problems with key/keyRefs it seems that a keyRef reference only works when it is part of an xml element and not an xml attribute. But then it results in technical attributes (id=" and href=) instead of business values as keys and references.
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> Again, things look really good when writing objects to xml but unmarshaling the resulting xml back to objects results in nil's instead of the referenced objects.
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> Is there any way of referencing objects by some of their attributes instead of technical hrefs? Is this only a 7.4 related bug and do things work in 7.5?
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> we currently seriously consider implementing our own sax drivers instead of using the XML object bindings because it takes a hell lot of time to play with the bindings just to find out they don't work the way they are documented (if they are documented at all)...
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> regards
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> Joachim
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