Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#10527 closed Feature Requests (wontfix)

boost serialization library not able to deserialized shorter xml tag

Reported by: mail.dsp@… Owned by: Robert Ramey
Milestone: To Be Determined Component: serialization
Version: Boost 1.44.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: Cc:

Description 

<Info class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">
    <value>0</value>
    <symbol/>
</Info>

Boost::serialization is not able to deserialize above XML. It throws exception with message "input stream error".

Actual XML generated by boost::serialization is 

<Info class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">
    <value>0</value>
    <symbol></symbol>
</Info>

I passed this XML to queue and received this XML by other application. In between queue tool shorten the empty XML tag.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Robert Ramey, 8 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed
Type: Bugs → Feature Requests

The xml parser used by the boost serialization library is guarenteed only to be able to parse output by the serialization library itself. So the syntax

<symbol/>

Is not legal.

Regarding the larger subject - Editing XML files produced by the serialization library. This is an interesting subject - but in no way a trivial one. If someone were interested in this, he could make a different xml archive which would include emitting a DTD or xml schema which might make it more "editable". But currently this is considered beyond the scope of the serialization library.

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