Cannot serialize sequence of tags

[ebkalderon]

I was using serde-xml-rs with the vkxml crate in one of my projects, and although the structures it exposes implement Serialize, the serialization fails due to serialize_seq() not being supported in serde-xml-rs, as described in this code block.

In this library, a valid vk_new.xml file is represented an ordered sequence of RegistryElement tags (see the lib.rs). Therefore, it intuitively appears straightforward to iterate over each element in the sequence and serialize them in turn. However, the comment left in the serialize_seq() method leads me to believe that this task isn't as simple as it seems.

Would anyone please elaborate on why this behavior isn't supported?

EDIT: I see that #36 has been open for about a year. What's the status?

[jrmiller82]

It's because it's a deserializer only as of now.

[flying-sheep]

It does have a serializer implementation, albeit limited. If I can help to get the ball rolling, I will!