Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Marcin Kalicinski (kalita_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-21 18:00:58

>> I think you are correct here.  This really sounds like it could've
>> (should've?) been implemented using the serialization library and
>> maybe BGL or a generic tree structure (which I would love to be a
>> Boost library).
>>
>> That way you get all of the traversal mechanisms available to the tree
>> (or graph) structure, and all of the archiving techniques available to
>> the serialization lib.
>
> Exactly my point.
>
> Gennadiy

You are correct it might (possibly) have been implemented this way. However, 
I'm quite sure you would need 30 lines of code, not 3 to get a value from a 
simple config file. And people would prefer to use MSXML or Expat instead 
anyway.

Marcin