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I am working on a XmlWriter class, and I wanted to be able to output attributes or text in most standard data formats (strings, integers, floating point numbers etc). To achieve this, I am using a file stream. For the bool data type, I wanted to specify a specialization to the template, so that it outputs true and false instead of 1 and 0 . However, the following code doesn't seem to compile: class XmlWriter { private: /* ... */ public: /* ... */ template <typename T> void writeText(T text) { /* ... */ } template <> // <-- error: explicit specialization in non-namespace scope 'class Strategy::IO::XmlWriter' void writeText<bool> (bool text) { // <-- error: template-id 'writeText<>' in declaration of primary template /* ... */ } template <typename T> void writeAttribute(std::string key, T value) { // <-- error: too many template-parameter-lists /* ... */ } template <> // <-- error: explicit specialization in non-namespace scope 'class Strategy::IO::XmlWriter' void writeAttribute<bool> (std::string key, bool value) { // <-- error: variable or field 'writeAttribute' declared void; expected ';' before '<' token /* ... */ } }; // <-- expected ';' before '}' token I don't understand, why all these errors, since I used the correct syntax presented on various websites on the internet? I am using Cygwin GCC.

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