Re: [Boost-users] [property_tree] Parsing vectors of objects

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [property_tree] Parsing vectors of objects
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-21 11:11:02

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Michael Powell <mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> I want to parse to and from Xml (or possibly Json) using the property
> tree.
>

Bad idea. See
http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Using-property-tree-as-json-reader-writer-td4642292.html

To be short: if you want to manipulate XML or JSON, use XML and JSON
libraries.
Property Tree is a format in itself and serialization functions are only
there to make ptree easy to move into another format,
not the other way arround. Because ptrees can't represent all xml or JSON
can.

PTree is useful both as container and if you don't care much about the
specific input format. As soon as you decided
to use a specifc input format which can represent more than ptree can
represent, it becomes far less useful.

Joel Lamotte