From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-18T03:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:05:02PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> irb(main):001:0> require 'soap/marshal'
> true
> irb(main):002:0> a = SOAP::Marshal.dump("abc")
> "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"us-ascii\" ?>\n<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:env=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">\n<env:Body>\n<String xmlns:n1=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\" xsi:type=\"xsd:string\" env:encodingStyle=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\">abc</String>\n</env:Body>\n</env:Envelope>\n"
> irb(main):003:0> b = SOAP::Marshal.load(a)
> "abc"
> 
> but actually it's not compatible with Marshal, because:
> - you can't pass an IO object to load, it must be a string

Sorry I was wrong, it takes an IO object quite happily (but I can't see
easily whether it reads the whole thing, or reads it in chunks)

> - you can't pass an IO object as the second parameter to dump
>   (it takes a mappingRegistry instead)

I can't see how to get around that one though.

Regards,

Brian.