From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5F5BBCA for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:51:47 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAHKfxkfU4368nmdsb2JhbACQcQEBAQEBBgQGERidLQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,421,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="23177870" Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2008 20:51:46 +0100 Received: from [152.78.96.56] (blomberg.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.37]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwh2-1JUonA0mNq-0002VW; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:51:44 +0100 Message-ID: <47C71334.7000603@functionality.de> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:01:56 +0000 From: Thomas Fischbacher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060607 Debian/1.7.12-1.2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dario Teixeira Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Long-term storage of values References: <191751.36007.qm@web54607.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <191751.36007.qm@web54607.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Fio+Vu7l/4pZNbtndrQCdP0NVFAxvC/ICsuO lMTaoXJ/mZSZ4rsOxd848d3QTDlbiY6NkBNo5JnaIrAh+SUWWz rDYUv6duGUgeIu8FKGiAQ== X-Spam: no; 0.00; marshalling:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 data:02 data:02 lisp:02 converted:04 problem:05 problem:05 convert:11 typically:11 solve:12 sort:12 strikes:14 such:14 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. -- best regards, Thomas Fischbacher tf@functionality.de