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

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-19 09:40:21

Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 09:21 AM 11/18/2002, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
>  >I believe that the biggest problem is that the current library does
>  >not have any "begin class serialization"/"end class serialization" hooks,
>  >which archive classes can interpret. IOW, you want to surround a
>  >serializated
>  >class with <something> and </something>, but the library passes only a
>  >stream
>  >of ints to you arhive class.
>  >
>  >Some other library (which name I can't remember now, sorry), used 
> something
>  >like 'describe', and there were explicit 'beginComposite' function.
> 
> That was Jens' library. 

Uhmm... no. I was talking about yet another library (still can't
remember the name). But the fact that it used begin/end functions
tells something.... that it's really needed.

- Volodya