# \[ANN/ADV\] CustomXMLSerialization 1.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 13, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-customxmlserialization-1-1/114527 "2007-09-13T23:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enchanter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@enchanter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enchanter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-customxmlserialization-1-1/114527/1 "2007-09-13T23:46:38Z")
CustomXMLSerialization is a Ruby on Rails plug-in that allows you more freedom in how your model objects are serialized using the to\_xml method in ActiveRecord::XmlSerialization. Your ActiveRecord subclasses can specify a complete custom serialization, without having to override to\_xml in each object. You can specify exactly which fields to include in a serialization, apply custom tag names, enclose data in CDATA constructs, and unwrap superfluous second-level associations into more brief first-level fields. For more information and examples of usage, visit the overview page at [http://code.google.com/p/custom-xml-serialization/wiki/Overview](http://code.google.com/p/custom-xml-serialization/wiki/Overview) To download, visit: [http://code.google.com/p/custom-xml-serialization/downloads/list](http://code.google.com/p/custom-xml-serialization/downloads/list) ---
**Author:** ![enchanter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@enchanter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enchanter)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-customxmlserialization-1-1/114527/2 "2007-09-14T02:25:32Z")
Tim - I think this is a great project. Thank you for your continued work! – Roderick van Domburg [http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com)