The macro can't work with templates even if the xml syntax issue were resolved. One has to use BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS_GUID(Something<MyThing>,"Something_MyThing"); // works \o/ This is because the GUID has to be different for each class. They can't ll be "Something_T" Robert Ramey Sohail Somani wrote:
Hi,
Quite sensibly, xml_archive seems to fail with archive errors when class_name contains xml characters (like <) which are quite common in templates. For example, in my tests:
BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS(Something<T>); // fails when deserializing because of parse error.
I fix it by doing:
BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS_GUID(Something<T>,"Something_T"); // works \o/
Now, do you suppose xml_archive could be smart enough to convert < to < and similarly for other prohibited characters when serializing? Even if not, is there something I can do in 1.33.1 that would make it not so redundant?
Thanks,
Sohail