Hi: Ok, I've just takan a look at property tree and it seems to do what I want, however if I use xml, and for example have an element such as: <Person id=121> </Person> How will propertytree handle the attribute on person, i.e the id member? Secondly, How do I go about having a number of person entries-i.e persons. I was thinking of using a vector of propertyTrees, will this work? Any help appreciated! Cheers Sean.

From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Redl Sent: 11 July 2011 13:43 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Program_options] sections in config files On 11.07.2011 14:34, Sean Farrow wrote: Hi: I'm new to using the program_options library. I have a requirement to use an ini file style configuration file. I have a file of the form: [Section 1] Key 1 =value1 Key2=value2 [section2] Key1=value1 Key2=value2 What I'd like to be able to do is: Firstly enumerate the sections assuming the form above. Then secondly enumerate the keys and values in any section of my coosing. Will program_options allow me to do this? No, but PropertyTree will. Sebastian