Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] skipping top node "<boost_serialization signature...>"

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] skipping top node "<boost_serialization signature...>"
From: OvermindDL1 (overminddl1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-27 17:55:14

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Sebastian Mach<phresnel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>
> 2009/8/27 Matthias Troyer <troyer_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Sebastian Mach wrote:
>>
>>> Passing boost::archive::no_header as the second parameter to
>>> xml_oarchive() yields the following file for given test:
>>>
>>>
>>> <picogen-qt-scene class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">
>>>    <comment>hello world!</comment>
>>>    <fenum>two</fenum>
>>> </picogen-qt-scene>
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>"
>>> is now missing, too.
>>
>> Can't you just write this to the file yourself?
>
> Of course, but it feels a little bit unclean.
>
> The other reason I did not mention (sorry, really bad wording from my side)
> is that xml in general does not feel dedicated enough to what I need, i.e.
> it's too verbose in the end (I have lots of 3d/4d-vectors and 4x4 matrices,
> complex recursive/cyclic/self referencing graphs, and so forth, and it
> should be human readable and writable).
>
> I think I will use a custom format that I already had in the past, and go
> use spirit once again to build a kiss-conformat serialization framework.

Building and reading s-expressions are easy, and personally I think
they are cleaner then XML.