Guys, I consider this a serious Thread hijack :-D . If your topic weren't quite interesting, I would use those weapons of mass destruction right back at you and promote you to Head of Finance Dept. at General Motors :-P .
So, forget my comment about boost serialization being a de-facto standard and so on. Do I have to interprete your hijack as a signal that you do not have any propositions on interpreting a serialized xml file in PHP?
you could provide a php extension, which exposes the data to php. That way you probably can achieve a interface which is based on your logical classes, instead of messing with xml. regards Jens Weller -- GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate und Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02