> My program can normalize these or not normalize these associations
> depending on the users preference. This maybe isn't the most motivating
> example, but the schema (DTD) was designed many years ago and that is
> probably not that uncommon a situation (?)
Thanks for explaning things in more detail.
> I was thinking that an object /tree/ with a cycle could never marshal to
> valid XML, but an object tree (or object DAG) could marshal to valid XML
> without problems?
You are right. It does marshal to a valid XML.
I'll ask others in the team, and find out what the spec says. If the
spec allows us to marshal out a DAG, I'm inclined to make that change.
regards,
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com
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