Re: [Boost-users] Boost serialization xml format and xml comments

From: Matt Schuckmann (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-15 11:13:26

Robert Ramey wrote:
> Matt Schuckmann wrote:
>> Is there a reason why the xml parser for the Serialization library
>> can't handle comments in the xml files? Or was this just an oversight.
> 
> lol - ne reason in particular.  The xml_iarchive was built to read files
> created by xml_oarchive.  In fact its  a little more lenient than
> this minimum - but not all that much.
> 
>> Has anybody modified the grammar so that it will work with comments in
>> the xml files?
> 
> This would be quite easy to do -- but -- you have to get somewhat
> familiar with spirit first.  This somewhat of a detour but its kind of
> a fun detour and the total time would be about the same as hacking
> some other solution.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
>> Thanks
>> Matt S. 

I've been working on doing just this and I'm not so sure it's really 
that easy. Since the Serialization library doesn't use a complete xml 
grammar (like what is provided on the Spirit examples page) and since it 
doesn't let Spirit see the entire text it isn't quite as easy as it 
might seem to make it work. So far I've gotten it to ignore comments 
before and after most tags but I'm not sure if it'll work in the general 
case.