I'm trying to implement and understand what the expected result is from using custom xml's and saving them with serialization filters.

In the chart examples, Serialization->Control State, when saving with CustomXML and choosing Appearance as the filter, it would be expected that only the appearance would be saved. So then modifying the chart data and appearance and then loading the saved appearance file should only modify the appearance of the chart. However, both Data and Appearance are modified when the loading the appearance custom xml.

Further, serializing the data only and loading it modifies the appearance as well as the data.

Can someone please comment on this?