Persistence is a means of storing data beyond the execution of a program, in such a way that the data can be reproduced, in memory, at a later time.
The Text.Persistence module attempts to do this through the use of reflection and xml.
The most simple usage is to pass an object into TPersist.Serialize(), which returns the serialized representation of it as a String.
To reverse the process, the serialized String can be passed into TPersist.DeSerialize(), returning a new Object instance, which is essentially a "deep" copy of the original object.
There are also methods, SerializeToFile(), SerializeToDoc(), and SerializeToStream() which output to different formats apporpriately.
The DeSerialize() function itself can take a TxmlDoc, TStream or String data as a parameter, as well as there being the specialised methods of DeSerializeFromDoc(), DeSerializeFromFile(), and DeSerializeFromStream().