Creating an application to send XML formatted data to this class that uses boost serialization, the issue is the name spaces in the boost_serialization tag; for example shown below... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE boost_serialization > <boost_serialization xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" signature="serialization::archive" version="4">... looking at the rule for parsing, SerializationWrapper = !S >> str_p(L"<boost_serialization") >> S >> SignatureAttribute >> S >> VersionAttribute >> !S >> L'>' Is there a way to change the rules to allow skipping the namespaces? all of the elements are there but there are a few extra? The issue is trying to change the XML parser not to generate may not be possible .NET.