And another point. If you want to parse the xml generated by boost serialization, the easy way would be just to use the spirt parser that is generated just for that purpose and is included in the library. This is also independent of the serialization library itself. The serialization library is really an "use case" of the spirit library for xml parsing. And it already includes the base64 to binary stuff. So, using the stuff that's already in there, the whole job is probably under 100 new lines of code. Good Luck Robert Ramey "Terence Wilson" <tez@latte.com> wrote in message news:000601c71bc4$5b8fd000$2101a8c0@gjoob.com... I need to parse an XML file generated by Boost Serialization, part of the file is a section generated by make_binary. I was wondering which scheme was used to convert binary to ASCII, uuencode, Base64? Obviously I need to know in order that I can convert back. TIA Dr. Terence Wilson Principal, Bayside Technical email: tez@latte.com web: http://latte.com _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users