Passing boost::archive::no_header as the second parameter to xml_oarchive() yields the following file for given test:<br><br><br>&lt;picogen-qt-scene class_id=&quot;0&quot; tracking_level=&quot;0&quot; version=&quot;0&quot;&gt;<br>
    &lt;comment&gt;hello world!&lt;/comment&gt;<br>    &lt;fenum&gt;two&lt;/fenum&gt;<br>&lt;/picogen-qt-scene&gt;<br><br><br>Unfortunately, &quot;&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; standalone=&quot;yes&quot; ?&gt;&quot; is now missing, too. <br>
<br>For now, I am really not sure if I will use this part of boost, though I admit the overall greatness of it.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/26 Sebastian Mach <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:phresnel@googlemail.com">phresnel@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It seems like &quot;boost::archive::no_header&quot; is the right flag to construct xml_[io]archive with, though I can&#39;t test this right now as I can&#39;t install boost on this box.<br>
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2009/8/26 Sebastian Mach <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:phresnel@googlemail.com" target="_blank">phresnel@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Good morning everyone<br><br>I&#39;d like to use boost::serialization for the generation of xml-files. The format of those files shall not be specific to or dependent of boost, i.e. I&#39;d like boost to not write the root-node of &quot;&lt;boost_serialization signature=&quot;serialization::archive&quot; version=...&gt;&quot;.<br>


<br>E.g., instead of <br><br>  &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; standalone=&quot;yes&quot; ?&gt;<br>  &lt;!DOCTYPE boost_serialization&gt;<br>  &lt;boost_serialization signature=&quot;serialization::archive&quot; version=&quot;4&quot;&gt;<br>


  &lt;picogen-qt-scene class_id=&quot;0&quot; tracking_level=&quot;0&quot; version=&quot;0&quot;&gt;<br>      &lt;comment&gt;hello world!&lt;/comment&gt;<br>      &lt;fenum&gt;two&lt;/fenum&gt;<br>  &lt;/picogen-qt-scene&gt;<br>


  &lt;/boost_serialization&gt;<br><br>I would prefer<br><br>  &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; standalone=&quot;yes&quot; ?&gt;<br>  &lt;picogen-qt-scene class_id=&quot;0&quot; tracking_level=&quot;0&quot; version=&quot;0&quot;&gt;<br>


      &lt;comment&gt;hello world!&lt;/comment&gt;<br>      &lt;fenum&gt;two&lt;/fenum&gt;<br>  &lt;/picogen-qt-scene&gt;<br><br><br>. I wonder if this is possible without tweakage of boost components (meaning that I would have to fork or write patches). I tried the serialization-documentation and google, but could not find appropriate information (or maybe I missed the right words).<br>


<br><br>Best Regards<br><font color="#888888"><br>Sebastian Mach<br><a href="http://picogen.org" target="_blank">http://picogen.org</a><br>
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