Hi, i am working with MICO and use boost::serialization (XML) for import/export of CORBA functions IN/OUT parameters, because i have an XML formatted configuration for the data to use for CORBA service invocations. One of the problems was, that some of the MICO are template'd. E.g. a data type holding a number of digits (e.g. telephone #no) is encoded in MICO as: template class BoundedSequenceTmpl { ... } ... using basic <class T> = CORBA::Short for digits (e.g.). 1st i used ToString(...)/fromString(...) functions to be able to save&load such to/from boost archives. And this worked - though it had the little drawback, that i needed to use additional variables in load() & save() to handle it this way. But then next it came up, that some other CORBA data types use the BoundedSequenceTempl<> as well, but for _more complex_ <class T> - e.g. BoundedSequenceTempl<> of BoundedSequenceTempl<>. For that i created a version of serialize(), save() & load() like this: template void serialize(Archive & ar, BoundedSequenceTmpl &p, const unsigned int version) { split_free(ar, p, version); } template void save(Archive & ar, const BoundedSequenceTmpl &p, const unsigned int version) { unsigned long length = p.length(); ar & make_nvp("length", length); for (unsigned long i = 0; i < length; ++i) { std::ostringstream name; name << "item_" << i; ar & make_nvp(name.str(), p[i]); } } template void load(Archive & ar, BoundedSequenceTmpl &p, const unsigned int version) { unsigned long length; ar & make_nvp("length", length); p.length(length); for (unsigned long i = 0; i < length; ++i) { std::ostringstream name; name << "item_" << i; ar & make_nvp(name.str(), p[i]); } } then i thought i can get rid of the formerly used ToString(...)/FromString(...) helpers and replace them by overloaded versions of the new (more generic) load() & save() variants dedicated for this BoundedSequenceTempl<...>. Like this: #if 0 // This was intended to make obsolete MicoVector_to_string(...) & // MicoVector_from_string(...) // kind of "template specialization" for the ones above // for BoundedSequenceTmpl<...> of types, which we don't want // to be spread out any further // // But i couldn't make this work. // Means: it compiles. But it implies another XML encoding level // - which is not what i want template void serialize(Archive & ar, BoundedSequenceTmpl &p, const unsigned int version) { split_free(ar, p, version); } template void save (Archive & ar, const BoundedSequenceTmpl &p, const unsigned int version) { std::ostringstream ostream; for (unsigned long i=0; i void load (Archive & ar, BoundedSequenceTmpl &p, const unsigned int version) { ... } #endif But that created me another level of encoding - which i don't want. E.g. having a superior encoder: template<class Archive> void save(Archive & ar, const DeleteHlrSubscriber_s &pInstance, const unsigned int version) { std::string simsi; std::string smsisdn; MicoVector_to_string(pInstance.imsi, simsi); MicoVector_to_string(pInstance.msisdn, smsisdn); // ar & make_nvp("imsi", simsi); // replace by the next... // this worked, but see above (the by "#if 0" disabled stuff) ar & make_nvp("imsi", pInstance.imsi); ar & make_nvp("msisdn", smsisdn); ar & make_nvp( "attach_imsi", pInstance.attach_imsi); } using pInstance.imsi directly (which is a BoundedSequenceTmplCORBA::Short()) resulted in: <imsi> // dropped boost::serializations internal XML attributes here <hallo>SomeString</hallo> </imsi> But I would like to have this one <imsi>SomeString</imsi> How can i do that? Thanks! Best regards! Frank _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192