xml serialization fails when using namespace

[gvegidy]

When serializing an object whose class is in a
namespace the xml serialization throws an "unrecognized
XML syntax" exception. Serializing using text or binary
archive works without problem.

The attached example shows the problem: define BUG and
it throws, undef it and it works.

It seems like the same bug was reported to the user
mailinglist in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/15479

but at that time noone guessed that the namespace is
the problem.

[Robert Ramey]

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Its not clear how to accomodate ":" characters in html tag names.  A 
pending issue.

Robert Ramey

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Thank you for submitting a bug report to BOOST

[carlo@…]

It's more than a year later now, and I just ran into this problem with boost 1.33.1. Why was this bug closed? What is the resolution?

[Robert Ramey]

The reason I don't do this is that it would mix the C++ namespace with the XML one. That is, the elementname std::list would appear in the xml with <std::list>. This could create, at the very least, confusion. It might also be a problem if the serialization stream is embedded in other xml.