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+// (C) Copyright 2008 CodeRage, LLC (turkanis at coderage dot com)
+// (C) Copyright 2003-2007 Jonathan Turkanis
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt.)
+
+// See http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams for documentation.
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_VALUE_TYPE_HPP_INCLUDED
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_VALUE_TYPE_HPP_INCLUDED
+
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1020)
+# pragma once
+#endif              
+
+#include <ndnboost/iostreams/traits.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/mpl/if.hpp>
+
+namespace ndnboost { namespace iostreams { namespace detail {
+
+template<typename T>
+struct param_type {
+    typedef typename mpl::if_<is_std_io<T>, T&, const T&>::type type;
+};
+
+template<typename T>
+struct value_type {
+    typedef typename mpl::if_<is_std_io<T>, T&, T>::type type;
+};
+
+} } } // End namespaces detail, iostreams, boost.
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_VALUE_TYPE_HPP_INCLUDED //-----------//