2009/8/27 Matthias Troyer <troyer@phys.ethz.ch>

On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Sebastian Mach wrote:

Passing boost::archive::no_header as the second parameter to xml_oarchive() yields the following file for given test:

<picogen-qt-scene class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">
<comment>hello world!</comment>
<fenum>two</fenum>
</picogen-qt-scene>

Unfortunately, "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>" is now missing, too.

Can't you just write this to the file yourself?

Of course, but it feels a little bit unclean.

The other reason I did not mention (sorry, really bad wording from my side) is that xml in general does not feel dedicated enough to what I need, i.e. it's too verbose in the end (I have lots of 3d/4d-vectors and 4x4 matrices, complex recursive/cyclic/self referencing graphs, and so forth, and it should be human readable and writable).

I think I will use a custom format that I already had in the past, and go use spirit once again to build a kiss-conformat serialization framework.