Forget XML. XML doesn't exist for your solution. You are NOT using XML.

You are asking how to serialize objects. There are a million solutions for that, from Object-Oriented databases to solutions in C++, Java, and Perl.

In Perl, a quick'n'dirty solution could use Storable to serialize the object and store the serialized string.

Better would be to have the object know how to serialize itself, possibly depending on Storable to do the actual dirty work. (Some modules, like DBI, don't store well.)

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Filter objects? by dragonchild
in thread Filter objects? by matth

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