On 11/21/05, Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval@yahoo.com> wrote:
Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote: I don't really know the serialization library, so I can't comment about it. If I understand correctly (and I'm certainly not sure of it), the serialization layer you mentioned is about converting a data structure to an XML representation, and back. That is very different from the log library. The XML representation is used solely for serialization purposes and so it's logical that the serialization library will supply this layer. The log library, on the other hand, uses the general iostream textual representation, so I don't really see what such a formatting layer would do, and what its benefits would be.
That formatting layer allows the serialization library to have more formatting options(serialization uses iostream, too) in a transparent way. That way we could have two formatting options: hex and textual. It may be too overkill for our problem. But is a possible solution...
Yuval
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