--- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't see how this would be possible. XML is essentially a string. > When you pass a complex object via xml, you have to serialize it into a > bunch of metadata that describes the object, so the receiver can > deserialize it back into an object instance. Like SOAP. > > > > What do you need to do?
I'm displaying XML data in a DataGrid, and it would be very convenient to "annotate" the XML data with some non-XML objects. As the XML is retrieved from the network, I'd like attach some non-XML objects to some XML nodes. Then, when the user, selects a row in the DataGrid, I could use the objects associated with the appropriate XML node to handle the item selection. I know there are many work-arounds doing this, but I was just wondering if there was a handy way of simply adding properties to the XML nodes. A broader issue, I guess, is that XML is a subclass of Object, and I do not know how to call an operator on the superclass, e.g., xml.super.myProperty = p. This doesn't work, obviously. Is there a way to override the XML object's specialization of the . and [] operators? Thanks, -- Frank
