Hi I want to store variant object in my property tree. The variant for now will have only 3dPoint object, but it should vary multiple types in future. I tried the following code , and I am getting compiler errors. I know that maybe I need to write some kind of translation code for this to work,but don't know how to do that exactly and having hard time to grasp the concept. So how can I do this if possibly at all ? A code example would be great class 3dPoint { public: 3dPoint(double,double,double); double x; double y; double z; }; typedef boost::variant MyVariant; using namespace boost::property_tree; typedef basic_ptreestd::string,MyVariant my_ptree; my_ptree pt; MyVariant point_variant = 3dPoint(1,2,3); pt.put("point",point_variant); MyVariant point_variant2 = pt.get("point"); boost::property_tree::xml_writer_settings<char> settings('\t', 1); write_xml("C:\\property.xml",pt,std::locale(),settings);