[Boost-users] How does boost.serialization do with BOM in text/xml files

I am think of using boost.serialization to replace CMarkup(http://www.firstobject.com/) as handle my XML config files. By playing with the examples coming with Boost, I found boost.serialization - does not handle BOM of UTF-8 files. - does not ignore <!-- ... > comments. Is there any workaround to this? Thanks.