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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:07:33 +0100
From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org>
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Paul Duffin wrote:
> A problem that I ran into was that Serializers do not have access to the 
> environment (Request / Response). This means that it is very hard to 
> write sophisticated Serializers.

For example? (I think FOP and batik are both pretty sofisticated 
serializers)

> We worked around this by using it in conjunction with a Transformer that 
> was given the environment and simply passed it on to the Serializer.

The problem with having an environment-dependent serializer is that the 
cache needs access to it because it might change its behavior depending 
on environment parameters.

Stefano.