Hi Paul, maybe you could use the no_header switch and paste the XML header into the file in a post-processing step? Best, Maarten ________________________________ From: Paul Heil <paul.heil@gmail.com> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:35:55 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] removing excess XML tags On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:16 PM, John Pretz <jpretz@lanl.gov> wrote: Paul, You can turn off the wrapping boost_serialization tag by giving your archive the boost::archive::no_header switch. There's a boost::archive::no_tracking switch, but it doesn't seem to turn off the 'class_id' and 'tracking_level' stuff. John #include <fstream> #include <iostream> #include <boost/archive/xml_oarchive.hpp> class MyClass { private: friend class boost::serialization::access; template<class Archive> void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int version){}; public: MyClass(){}; friend std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream &os, const MyClass &gp); virtual ~MyClass(){}; }; int main( int argc, char** argv[] ) { MyClass mc; // std::ofstream ofs("MyFile.xml"); boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(std::cout,boost::archive::no_header); oa << boost::serialization::make_nvp( "MYTAG", mc ); return 0; } Paul Heil wrote: I'd like to use the boost::serialization library to generate XML that must be read by a third party application. Unfortunately, this application does not like the extra stuff that the serialization library generates. The code below generates XML that looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> <!DOCTYPE boost_serialization> <boost_serialization signature="serialization::archive" version="5"> <MYTAG class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0"></MYTAG> </boost_serialization> What I need is XML that looks more like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> <MYTAG></MYTAG> What can I do to eliminate the extra stuff? Thanks, PaulH class MyClass { private: friend class boost::serialization::access; template<class Archive> void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int version){}; public: MyClass(){}; friend std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream &os, const MyClass &gp); virtual ~MyClass(){}; }; int main( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[] ) { MyClass mc; std::ofstream ofs("MyFile.xml"); boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(ofs); oa << boost::serialization::make_nvp( "MYTAG", mc ); return 0; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users Unfortunately, the "no_header" flags turns off the xml version header which I actually do need to keep: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> -PaulH