what you ask for is not possible with the current xml_?archive classes. I believe what you want could be achieved by writing your own version of xml_archive. Robert Ramey "Delfin Rojas" <drojas@moodlogic.com> wrote in message news:002901c65378$73c35580$3000a8c0@winxpme... Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to use the serialization lib and the XML archive to serialize into XML attributes instead of XML elements. For example I want to be able to generate something like: <song id="5" title="foo"/> I would also like to know if the order of XML elements is strict. Meaning, if I have the XML: <song> <id>5</id> <name>foo</name> </song> Can I ask the library to de-serialize "name" and then "id"? What if the xml contains extra XML elements that I don't care to de-serialize? Will I get an error processing the archive? If these things are not supported right now, what would it take to support it? New xml archive? Thanks a lot, Delfin Rojas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users