On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:21:40 -0700, Robert Ramey wrote
Hmm - I couldn't resist adding my own idea for an add on to serialization.
Robert Ramey
Actually, I think that serialization extensions would be great student projects. It's real, it's meaty and it's increadibly useful. In fact, I might suggest we go for JSON (http://www.json.org/) or YAML (http://www.yaml.org/) instead of another XML binding. JSON is getting really big for web applications using AJAX. Both JSON and YAML would have some slightly tricky design aspects as I think on the input side the archiver would need to know which types to use for the array and map-like data structures. I'll put these on the wiki if you don't object. Robert, could you please fill out this form: http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html That way we can add you to the mentor list. Great idea, and thanks for volunteering to mentor! Jeff