Am 18.03.2013 12:46, schrieb Andrew Smith:

Hi,

Is there any way of customizing the element names given to serialization of std::pair via xml_oarchive. Im think of something like the|||BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP mechanism.

In particular Im looking to serialize std::map with custom elemnet names to replace '<first>' and '<second>'

depending on whether you want your container to always be serialized this way, or just for your specific file type, you could derive from xml_oarchive and implement a save_override function - see the Archive concept documentation, or you could implement a serialize() function for your specific container or the type holding the container. the latter case would either look like --- void serialize(Archive &ar,std::map &,unsigned int)... or --- struct container_holder{ //Serializable private: std::map container; };