[Boost-users] [Serialization] xml_archive + templates = :-(

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-27 15:37:08

Hi,

Quite sensibly, xml_archive seems to fail with archive errors when
class_name contains xml characters (like <) which are quite common in
templates. For example, in my tests:

BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS(Something<T>); // fails when deserializing because of
parse error.

I fix it by doing:

BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS_GUID(Something<T>,"Something_T"); // works \o/

Now, do you suppose xml_archive could be smart enough to convert < to
&lt; and similarly for other prohibited characters when serializing?
Even if not, is there something I can do in 1.33.1 that would make it
not so redundant?

Thanks,

Sohail