Dario Teixeira wrote:

> 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).
> 
> This strikes me as problem bound to be common.  How do you guys typically
> solve this sort of situation?

By using lisp.

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Thomas Fischbacher
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