Re: [Boost-users] Serialized as what?

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-10 10:20:08

"Merrill Cornish" <merrill.cornish_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:12702178.1131634634634.JavaMail.root_at_elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net...
> What external file format does the Boost Serialization Library use?
>
> The introduction to the library states the requirement that serialization 
> written
> by one machine must be readable by a different machine.
> And, elsewhere, it mentions that and XML intermediate file
> is on possibility; but I can't seem to find what the format being used is.

I think the term format in this case is ambiguous. Other than(the current) 
binary, text and xml archive types, the content and organization of files 
generated for each archive is determined by the serialize method 
implementations of your application.

IIRC, Robert is improving the documentation to better convey this.

Jeff Flinn