Re: [cp-patches] Patch: RFA: QName serialization

[Chris Burdess]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> This updates QName to be Serializable as required by 1.5.
>
> As part of this, I changed the qName field to be computed lazily, so
> that it would work properly with serialization without requiring a
> readObject method.
>
> Any comments?  Is this ok?  This isn't really my area so I didn't want
> to simply commit this change.

That's OK, as long as hashCode and qName are only computed once as 
you're doing. QNames are often used repeatedly in transformation and 
XPath processing and need to be implemented efficiently.
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