Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.PropertyTree] Storing pointers and writing data with parser.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.PropertyTree] Storing pointers and writing data with parser.
From: Jani Plesnicar (plesnicar.jani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-30 12:47:43

Hmm, i didnt know that the ptree stores all data as a string. which is kind
of slow for my usage.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Sebastian Redl <
sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 06/30/2010 06:22 PM, Jani Plesnicar wrote:
> > Hy i am trying to store pointers in Property Tree and when i do need
> > to write to some parser data i want to write data to which is
> > "connected" with that pointer. because if i do
> > xml_parser::write_xml(std::cout, _pt_root) i get pointers not the data
> > to which is each leaf pointing to.
> >
> PTree stores the data as strings, and only does conversions when
> inserting/extracting data. Because of this, there is no possible
> interception point in XML writing to get the data you want.
> You could make a PTree that has a data type other than string, but
> write_xml won't work with it.
> I'm sorry, but I can't think of a way to do what you want.
>
> Sebastian
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