Re: [boost] Serialization Draft Submission # 2

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-21 16:37:43

At 03:30 AM 3/21/2002, Vladimir Prus wrote:

 >I thought, however, that there should be some another level, which 
manages
 >translation between the objects into calls to low-level functions that
 >store ints and chars. Now I see a problem: in order to make sense of XML,
 >it should use reasonable names, and look like
 ><green_crocodile>
 >	<age>7</age>
 >	<weight>200</weight>
 ></green_crocodile>
 >However, there's no was to get names "green_crocodile", "age" and 
"weight"
 >without user's help. So it's not possible to get reasonable XML
 >automatically.

While it might not be possible to do that "automatically", Jens' design 
made it trivial to supply a writer or reader that would handle 
"green_crocodile", "age" and "weight" XML. That should continue to be 
trivial, IMO, or a design really comes into question.

Users really do want a serialization library, but they have high 
expectations.

--Beman