Re: [boost] Serialization & XML (was Serialization Library Review)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-19 08:20:33

Matthias Troyer <troyer_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 06:22 AM, David Bergman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a comment from the Java corner of the world: I have, as many
>> other developers using Java, implemented serialization of objects onto
>> XML. It is not that hard, although there might not exist (can anyone
>> verify this?) a standardized (more or less...) "C++ Object XML Format".
>>
>>
>> There are two alternatives:
>>
>> 1. Use an intelligible XML Application (yes, that is what the XML folks
>> call the specific XML languages, such as XHTML...), giving not only
>> platform independence (which I assume the serializer module already
>> achieves...) but language independence, i.e., the object or value can be
>> unmarshalled, or generated, by a Python program, much in the spirit of
>> the good old XDR.
>
> As nice as the idea is, there are C++ types that cannot be
> represented in Java. Just consider templates or multiple inheritance
> (from two or more base classes where neither can be represented as a
> Java interface)

Multiple inheritance, including diamond-inheritance is easily
represented in Python.

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