Hmmm - I think I understand better what you want. I'm not sure the easiest way to do it. Maybe one might specialize nvp<char [] &>(... The "standard" way would be to make a derivation of xml_archive But I would have to think about it some more. Robert Ramey Dan Thill wrote:

Thank you for the fast reply, Robert.

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Another idea is to cast your character array to a ... character array - like static_cast< int [64] &>(my array address) but that would require a constant size which might not work for you.

I'm not certain I quite understand this. Perhaps I didn't get my thoughts down coherently. I'm seeking to write my serialization like this (sorry I forgot to include this in my initial msg):

char some_array[5] = "test"; .... ar & make_nvp("some_array", make_char_array(some_array, 5));

And obtain the following output:

output.xml: ... <some_array>test</some_array>

output.txt: .... 4 test .... ---------------------------

My aforementioned make_char_array() works fine for text archives--just not when the result is composed with make_nvp().

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Finally you can use the blunt instrument approach.

save(.... std::string temp_string; // copy data into temp_string ar << temp_string

load .. do the opposite.

Which is pretty much what my serialization wrapper is doing (this is in fact, what I wrote initially, before trying to make it a serialization wrapper). While I can certainly do the blunt approach, it will require me to split my serialization function :(