XDR? (was Re: is there a safe marshaler?)

[PA]

On Feb 10, 2005, at 22:21, Irmen de Jong wrote:

> PS the xdr format is not self-describing in the way that
> marshal and pickle streams are. That is a big limitiation
> for what I need it for so xdr seems to drop off my radar.
> Is an ASN.1 stream self-describing?

Not sure how much "self-describing" you want it to be, but, yes it can 
be as formal as you want it to be...

"... Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a formal language for 
abstractly describing messages... "

Sorry if this is off-topic, I didn't follow the thread from the very 
beginning, but wouldn't something like YAML work for you perhaps?

http://yaml.org/

Or even something more, er, exotic:

https://alt.textdrive.com/pl/

Cheers

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