From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-03-18T19:18:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1

Hi,

> From: Brian Candler
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:29 AM

> > 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

You don't have to apologies about it.  I added
SOAP::Marshal.(dump|load) after releasing 1.4.8.1. :-)
http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lib/soap4r/lib/soap/marshal.rb?rev=1.13

> (but I 
> can't see
> easily whether it reads the whole thing, or reads it in chunks)

Depends on XML processor.  If I understand correctly,
recent XML processors support stream reading.

> > - 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.

In CVS version, it should be supported as well.

Regards,
// NaHi