Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] XML archive is order-dependent

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-19 11:33:10

This would be possible but ...

a) It would require some effort and no one has found the benefit to be worth 
that effort.
b) It would usually require that the whole archive be loaded into memory to 
be parsed.  This would mean that one could no longer handle an arbitrary 
sized data set.  For some applications this wouldn't be a problem.  For 
others - a deal breaker.

So its a question of trading one limitation for another - arbitray file size 
vs arbitrary member order.

Robert Ramey

Stan Vasilyev wrote:
> I'm using boost::archive::xml_iarchive to read data from an XML
> archive created by hand. It works as long as I keep all the tags in
> the same order that they are serialized in my code. As soon as I put
> in an extra XML tag somewhere, de-serialization fails.
>
> Since XML is order-independent, is it possible to make
> boost::serialization also order-independent?
>
> Stan