LDAP Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) serialization provides a way for applications to store the state of LDAP runtime objects (that is, an object of class LDAPEntry) in the XML format pertaining to the DSML schema constraints.
The stored destination may be any of the following:
Runtime output stream
User And/or application
Console and/or terminal
A permanent file in OS file system
The stored objects can be read and later constructed depending on the application use and demand.