Re: [boost] Serialization Draft Submission # 2

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-22 12:20:10

At 03:22 AM 3/22/2002, Vladimir Prus wrote:

 >Beman Dawes wrote:
 >> 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.
 >
 >If "describe" methods don't tell the member names (and they don't now),
 >you'll have no way to store those names. Should the ability to
 >specify names be present?

No, I wasn't asking for that.  Rather just saying that the user should be 
able to supply a lower-level writer/reader, and that lower level 
writer/reader should have enough information available to be able to handle 
nested (like XML or HTML), separated (like CSV), or other formats as 
desired.  A large app might need to supply several reader/writers.

--Beman