Hi, maybe this is stupid, but I wonder if my code could become more elegant. I am using expat for XML parsing, which is working fine, but could be nicer: I have a class (XmlParser) which provides all the handlers for SAX parsing required by expat, but I can't figure out how to use them directly? When initializing expat, I give it a pointer to an XmlParser object and then register handlers: -------------------------- static void expatStartElementHandler (void* pUserData, const char* element, const char** attr) { XmlParser* xmlParser = reinterpret_cast<XmlParser*>(pUserData); xmlParser->startElement (element, attr); } static void expatEndElementHandler (void* pUserData, const char* element) { XmlParser* xmlParser = reinterpret_cast<XmlParser*>(pUserData); xmlParser->endElement (element); } void XmlParser::init() { parser_ = XML_ParserCreate ("UTF-8"); XML_SetUserData (parser_, this); XML_SetElementHandler (parser_, expatStartElementHandler, expatEndElementHandler); //... } ------------------------- I would prefer to get rid of those static non-member functions and their reinterpret_cast and do something like // does not work XML_SetElementHandler (parser_, boost::bind(&XmlParser::startElement, this, _2, _3), boost::bind(&XmlParser::endElement, this, _2)); Is there a nice way to do this with bind? Regards, Roland