Re: [boost] [property_tree] include directive for non-info files

Subject: Re: [boost] [property_tree] include directive for non-info files
From: Ivan Le Lann (ivan.lelann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-24 06:57:13

----- "Sebastian Redl" <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> a écrit :

> On 29.09.2011 16:18, Ivan Le Lann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In Boost.PropertyTree, INFO format has the nice #include directive.
> > But it seems you cannot include other formats.
> > Typically such INFO file,
> >
> > key
> > {
> > #include_xml "my.xml"
> > }
> >
> > with "my.xml" :<root><child>kid</child></root>
> >
> > could give : get<std::string>  ("key.root.child") == "kid"
> >
> > A very quick look at info parser makes me think that
> > it would be easy to implement. Any comment ?
> >
> This is a strange request. What is your use case?
> 

Thanks for your answer and sorry for the delay.

Some part of my configuration are XML files given by
third parties and, being particularly lazy, I did not want 
to write the few lines needed to handle the indirection. :-)

> I'm rather disinclined to implement it, since it would create 
> cross-dependencies between the various parsers.
> 
 
Yeah, I kind of exspected this answer. It probably makes sense.

Regards,
Ivan