Hello Dario,

2008/2/28 Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>:
>  I am therefore looking for an alternative to marshalling that a) does
>  not suffer from the brittleness problem, and b) is fast.  At the
>  moment, the best thing that occurs to me is to convert the data into
>  XML and to store it as such in the DB (the data is easily converted
>  into XML).

I asked a similar question once. One of the answer was to use Sexplib,
to store your values as Lisp S-exp:
http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#toc11

You could also use Config_file: http://home.gna.org/cameleon/configfile.en.html

Yours,
d.