SECXMLArchive

SECXMLArchive is the CArchive equivalent of MFC's binary serialization architecture. However, unlike CArchive, SECXMLArchive is just an interface; the actual implementation is provided in the SECXMLDOMArchive-derived class. SECXMLDOMArchive uses the XML DOM interfaces specified in the Microsoft XML SDK to interact with XML documents.

An SECXMLDOMArchive instance gets created and gets associated with an .xml file by the SECXMLDocAdapter_T class. However, you would only deal with the base SECXMLArchive interface in your application. You can also create and initialize SECXMLDOMArchive yourself, if you choose not to use the document adapter class in your application. Important interfaces in SECXMLArchive are discussed in the following sections. These include:

• Attributes

• Insertion operations

• Extraction operations

• Serialize variant

• Hierarchical nesting support