It turns out CHKSerializer was inheriting from xml5
However, xml5 does *not* support rich roots. So it was inherently a bad
xml format for trasmitting rich-root information.
I don't believe the XML format was used elsewhere (there was some code
in StreamSource that used it for a while, but that is currently replaced
by the InterDifferingSerializer code path, and in the future we will
be switching to inventory deltas anyway.)