id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 9919 xml_parser::read_xml() and write_xml() are limited to std::string keys sanderb@… Sebastian Redl "boost::property_tree::xml_parser and json_parser are hardcoded to work only with keys of std::string type. The following code will fail to compile: boost::property_tree::basic_ptree pt; std::string filename(""123.xml""); boost::property_tree:xml_parser::read_xml(filename, pt); I have prepared a patch 8af8b6bf3b65fa59792d849b526678f176d87132 that removes this limitation and added a pull request on github" Patches new To Be Determined property_tree Boost 1.54.0 Problem