Best practice to serialize a org.w3c.dom.Document over RPC?

[Richard Kennard]

Hi guys,

A (hopefully easy) question: what is the GWT 'best practice' to take a
server-side DOM built with org.w3c.dom.Document and pass it over RPC?

Clearly once on the client-side it needs to become a
com.google.gwt.xml.client.Document, and I can achieve this by
serializing to and from a String of XML, but is there a better way?
Something more performant that uses some built-in DOM serialization
capabilities?

Regards,

Richard.

[Thomas Broyer]

On 5 juil, 09:02, Richard Kennard <rich...@kennardconsulting.com>
wrote:

I doubt there would be anything more performant than XML
serialization. Particularly on the client-side, as this is done by the
browser, and not by some JavaScript code.

[Harald Pehl]

I agree with Thomas. XMLParser.parse(xmlString) uses the browsers xml
parser which should be reasonable fast.

If you want to further process the XML document (e.g. map it to POJOs)
feel free to take a look at Piriti: http://code.google.com/p/piriti/.
It's a little lib I wrote to map XML / JSON to POJOs using annotations
and deferred binding.

- Harald

[Richard Kennard]

Perfect! Thanks for the detailed and fast responses guys.

Richard.