David Abrahams wrote:
Robert,Robert,As review manager I'd like you to consider this very carefully. As much as I dislike XML for the hype that surrounds it and for its unweildy syntax, it has become a very important standard for many jobs, especially serialization. I believe your assessment that some data structures can't be represented using XML is incorrect, and that's easy to prove. A serialization library which makes generation of XML output difficult is severely handicapped in the modern world.
there is an xml_pickle module for Python which can serialize any Python object to and from XML. C++ is a whole different language of course, but I do not believe it is unreasonable to assume that similar techniques could be used for C++ data structures.
And Dave says it can even be proven. Which one of you is right, I don't know. But if either statement can be proven, I'd say show us some proof. ;)
Dirk Gerrits
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