[Boost-users] [serialization] XML archive limitations?

29 Mar 2006

      Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible to use the serialization lib and the
XML archive to serialize into XML attributes instead of XML elements. For
example I want to be able to generate something like:

<song id="5" title="foo"/>

I would also like to know if the order of XML elements is strict. Meaning,
if I have the XML:

<song>
<id>5</id>
<name>foo</name>
</song>

Can I ask the library to de-serialize "name" and then "id"? What if the xml
contains extra XML elements that I don't care to de-serialize? Will I get an
error processing the archive?

If these things are not supported right now, what would it take to support
it? New xml archive?

Thanks a lot,

Delfin Rojas