id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 4429 XML serialization appears as character rather than e.g. 0 ramon.casellas@… Robert Ramey "In previous versions (tested with 1.42) serializing e.g. a container using XML gave: 3 0 .. Using boost trunk, 0 ^@ In both cases: Maybe needs a cast? System: Debian GNU/Linux GCC 4.4.3 or 4.5 2.6.32 Thank you in advance R." Bugs closed Boost 1.44.0 serialization Boost 1.44.0 Regression fixed xml serialization item_version 0 value