"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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> davidw wrote:
> > Last time, I asked a question about if a XPathDocument could be
serialized.
> > Actually what I really want to know is how should I do in this case:
> >
> > I have a class that will be serialized. In the class, I need call
another
> > class, which will read setting from database. I want to load the xml
once
> > and use it in the following calls. So it need to be serialized. But
> > XPathDocument doesn't support it. What should I do here? make the class
> > serializable? or put the xml in a string and create XPathDocument in
every
> > call, or othe way?
>
> Create a serializable class for your settings and use it instead of
> XPathDocument.
>
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCAD]
> http://blog.tkachenko.com

davidw wrote:
> Last time, I asked a question about if a XPathDocument could be serialized.
> Actually what I really want to know is how should I do in this case:
>
> I have a class that will be serialized. In the class, I need call another
> class, which will read setting from database. I want to load the xml once
> and use it in the following calls. So it need to be serialized. But
> XPathDocument doesn't support it. What should I do here? make the class
> serializable? or put the xml in a string and create XPathDocument in every
> call, or othe way?

davidw wrote:
> So I should not use the XPathDocument, how should I store those settings?
> should I use Hashtable? If I only need some data in the settings, isn't it a
> bad idea to parse all data from XML string to Hashtable?

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
news:OwObOBjeFHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> davidw wrote:
> > So I should not use the XPathDocument, how should I store those
settings?
> > should I use Hashtable? If I only need some data in the settings, isn't
it a
> > bad idea to parse all data from XML string to Hashtable?
>
> Well, I meant not Hashtable, but domain-specific class with meaningful
> properties for settings:
>
> public class MySettings {
> public string ReportWidth {
> get { return ...}
> set { .....}
> }
> ...
> }
>
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCAD]
> http://blog.tkachenko.com

davidw wrote:
> Right, but where should I store the setting data, I need load the data from
> DB and store it in an object in the class and access it when the class is
> called to get a specific setting. I don't want access DB for each setting,
> does that make sense?