[Boost-users] serialization problem with strings

I have a custom stream that I am adaptiing to, so I build oarchive and iarchive classes derived from boost::archive::detail::common_xarchive according to the documentation. I have a function that looks like the following to handle the specifics of loading and saving. template<class T> void load(T & t) { // load data... } This seems to work for everything except std::string's. I noticed it when writing out a std::map<std::string, std::string>. The map is handled properly by the boost/serialization/map.hpp routines, but the strings are sent to my load function instead of being handled by boost/serialization/string.hpp. Any insight in to what I could possibly be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated. -doug