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

From: Todd Greer (TGreer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-15 11:50:39

Matt Schuckmann wrote:

> 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.

I wonder if, long term, it might be worth rewriting xml_iarchive to use
a Spirit grammar for the overall parser. Robert, is there a particular
rationale for the hybrid approach that you used, or is that just a
product of how familiar you were with Spirit at the time?

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Todd Greer	<at Affinegy dot com, tgreer>