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26 Aug 2009

      Good morning everyone

I'd like to use boost::serialization for the generation of xml-files. The
format of those files shall not be specific to or dependent of boost, i.e.
I'd like boost to not write the root-node of "".

E.g., instead of

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
  <!DOCTYPE boost_serialization>

  <picogen-qt-scene class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">
      <comment>hello world!</comment>
      <fenum>two</fenum>
  </picogen-qt-scene>

I would prefer

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
  <picogen-qt-scene class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">
      <comment>hello world!</comment>
      <fenum>two</fenum>
  </picogen-qt-scene>

. I wonder if this is possible without tweakage of boost components (meaning
that I would have to fork or write patches). I tried the
serialization-documentation and google, but could not find appropriate
information (or maybe I missed the right words).

Best Regards

Sebastian Mach
http://picogen.org