There's some confusion here, the name in name value pair is used for the name data - not the typename. In any case, you might try deriving from xml_oachive and re-implement the following function: typedef detail::common_oarchive<Archive> detail_common_oarchive; template<class T> void save_override( #ifndef BOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING const #endif ::boost::serialization::nvp<my_type> & t, int ){ save_start(t.name()); // t.name includes "item" replace with whatever you choose like "my_type" + t.name this->detail_common_oarchive::save_override(t.const_value(), 0); save_end(t.name()); Of course this would likely have all manner of undesired side-effects - like changing ALL the tags for this type - not just "item". And of course it would only work for my_type, etc.,etc. Robert Ramey Chris Weed wrote:
Hi, I am interested in using the xml serialization code for std::vector, but currently it is hard-coded to name items, "item". Is this customizable by overloading/specializing make_nvp for my type to replace "item" with a type-specific name? I tried the following code which didn't accomplish this. Chris