Hello, all ... I've successfully used the Boost serialization classes to read our config file, as well as write updates to it. It seems to work well enough, and i'm appreciative of the effort that someone put into making these classes work. My question, though, is about this: There is another XML file that we have to read, that is generated by a server process that we do not directly control. We're currently using TinyXML to read from this XML file, but we would like to replace its' usage with something Boosty. The thing is, the current Boost serialization classes seem to need some special tags and attributes in the XML (boost_serialization tag, class_id / tracking_level / version attributes) to read from it, and the server process which creates this XML file doesn't put those attributes in there (and we would prefer to not have the maintainers of that process make a change just for us). Is there another way I can use Boost to read from an XML, and fill an object with its' values (like the serialization classes do), without needing those special tags / attrbutes? Regards, John Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound http://www.fallingyou.com