Re: [Boost-users] Boost serialization xml format and xml comments

Matt Schuckmann wrote:

Since the Serialization library doesn't use a complete xml grammar (like what is provided on the Spirit examples page) and since it doesn't let Spirit see the entire text it isn't quite as easy as it might seem to make it work. So far I've gotten it to ignore comments before and after most tags but I'm not sure if it'll work in the general case.

I wonder if, long term, it might be worth rewriting xml_iarchive to use a Spirit grammar for the overall parser. Robert, is there a particular rationale for the hybrid approach that you used, or is that just a product of how familiar you were with Spirit at the time? -- Todd Greer